Impurity Quote by Georges Bernanos Download Open image “Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.” — Georges Bernanos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impurity Nostalgia Obsession Purity
The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I don’t know if I’ve learned anything yet! I did learn how to have a happy home, but I consider myself fortunate in that regard because I could’ve rolled right by it. Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth — we don’t have shamans or soothsayers, and depth isn’t… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share
If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case. — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share
Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
If your breath is very deep in the lungs, it will give you a good red blood. Good red blood, with the oxygen, is… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let us say, "my temper," or "untruthfulness," or "pride," "my selfishness, my cowardice, indolence, jealousy, revenge, impurity." To recognize our sins, we must look them in the face and call them by… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share