Purity Quotes

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If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To… — Yukio Mishima
It has to do with seeing God. â€œBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see Godâ€ (Matthew 5:8). — John Piper
There's a Spanish proverb," he said, "that's always fascinated me. "Take what you want and pay for it, says God.'" "I don't believe in God,"… — Tana French
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead… — Edith Wharton
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for… — John Piper
True beauty lies in purity of the heart. — Mahatma Gandhi
There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.)… — William Goldman
If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. — Paulo Coelho
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against… — Theodore Roethke
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences. — Dennis Lehane
There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone… — Djuna Barnes
Purity of heart is what enables us to see. — Pope Benedict XVI
Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you. — Vanna Bonta
The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers… — Shan Sa
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. — E L Doctorow
This must be part of Mother Nature's master planâ€”making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions… — Rachel Cohn
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That… — Anais Nin
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of… — Gustave Flaubert

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