Purity Quotes

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.