PURITY QUOTES II
quotations about purity
But purity is difficult to understand in the abstract ... like corruption, we understand purification best when it's concrete, physical.
ASHLYN MOONEY
"Trump Speaks Far-Right"
The price of purity is purists.
CALVIN TRILLIN
American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy", Esquire, May 1961
Purity in the heart is like medicine in the body, it expels disease.
ICH DIEN
Homiletic Review, 1896
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
JAMES BALDWIN
Nobody Knows My Name
Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain.
MADAME SWETCHINE
"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine
Make pure thy heart, and thou wilt make thy life rich, sweet and beautiful.
JAMES ALLEN
Morning and Evening Thoughts
Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of the soul. For the soul also has its foods that are harmful.
JOHN CASSIAN
Making Life a Prayer
There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Passion and Purity
To the pure all things are pure!
MARCEL PROUST
The Guermantes Way
I wish we could wash from our hearts and our souls
The stains of the week away,
And let water and air by their magic make
Ourselves as pure as they;
Then on the earth there would be indeed
A glorious washing-day!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
People struggle more with purity than any other issue in the Christian life. That's because the way we tend to think of purity is debilitating to the soul. Our understanding and expression of purity is often limited to making self-conscious and grand, heroic gestures to say no to certain activities or life choices. We do what's expected: sign the card, make the promise, say the pledge--anything to keep our best foot forward (and our faults hidden). The tragedy is, this self-seeking approach to purity reduces the Christian life to superficial morality. Every choice becomes a platform to flaunt our assumed moral high ground, and we transform ourselves into representatives of a heavy-handed legalism. What an unadulterated view of purity!
DAVID EDWARDS
The God of Yes
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
Saturday Evening Post, April 12, 1947
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA
Dhammapada
Purity
Is obscurity.
OGDEN NASH
"Reflection On A Wicked World"
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable.... It is not true.... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
"Unspotted from the World"
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
ANGELA CARTER
Nights at the Circus
A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.
J.S.B. MORSE
Now and at the Hour of Our Death
The pursuit and preservation of purity can drive prejudice and hate. Many crimes against humanity have been committed in its name. Purity is best applied to water.
JAMIE LE FAY
Beginnings