Pure Quotes
2770 Pure quotes by 1744 unique authors
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Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing…
— Stephen Levine
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The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made…
— Chavela Vargas
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Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you do not prevent…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through…
— Josiah Bartlett
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You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water.
— Jean Sibelius
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The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's…
— Paddy Johnson
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Basketball is a pure invention,
— James Naismith
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Sugar crystallizes something in our American Soul. It is emblematic of all Industrial Processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White Being equated with…
— Kara Walker
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You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your…
— Henry Wotton
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The pure Christian State is a State in which theological law prevails. This law attains to real power or, to be more exact, absolute power,…
— Bruno Bauer
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Nothing can be achieved without knowledge and yet everything can be achieved just through a pure heart.
— Haidakhan Babaji
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Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.
— Jacques Necker
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My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois,…
— Miguel Serrano
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My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you…
— Matt de la Pena
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Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining…
— Godfried Danneels
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Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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There is no age barrier when it comes to Christlike service. … As we look beyond our differences in age, culture, and circumstance to nurture…
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
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Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
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What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump…
— Nancy E. Turner
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It is the pure arrogance of the newly rich and the newly powerful to think content is easy.
— John Landgraf
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