PURITY QUOTES III
quotations about purity
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
When you are trying to live the life of the Spirit, you will try to be pure. You do well, but why? In order that you may be pure, and leave your impure brethren in their impurity? Oh no! You must try to be pure, in order that there may be more purity in the world to share amongst all men.
ANNIE BESANT
lecture delivered in the smaller Queen's Hall, London, "Psychism and Spirituality", June 16, 1907
Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
ERIC LIDDELL
The Disciplines of the Christian Life
The stream is always purer at its source.
BLAISE PASCAL
Lettres Provinciales
Purity of heart is that holy disposition of the soul whereby the christian, whose conscience is sprinkled with the clean water of Christ's atoning blood from the guilt of his iniquities, is inclined to hate and depart from the pollution of all sin in general, and in particular from the pollution of fleshly lusts.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Purity of Heart", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
PETER S. BEAGLE
The Last Unicorn
If righteousness is the standard of doing that which is right, purity is a characteristic of not doing wrong. To be pure from sin is to be kept from sin, so that purity is the obverse of righteousness. Purity is the negative statement that God is free from sin, while righteousness is the positive statement of his nature that sets the standard for right living.
ALLAN COPPEDGE
Portraits of God
She was pure, it was true, as he had never dreamed of purity; but cherries stained her lips.
JACK LONDON
Martin Eden
Purity is right. Impurity is wrong. True? Absolutely. But it's equally correct to say purity is always smart; impurity is always stupid. There it is--what I'm calling The Purity Principle: Purity is always smart; impurity is always stupid. Not sometimes. Not usually. Always. You're not an exception. I'm not an exception. There are no exceptions. A holy God made the universe in such a way that actions true to His character, and the laws derived from His character, are always rewarded. Actions that violate His character, however, are always punished. He rewards every act of justice; He punishes every act of injustice.
RANDY ALCORN
The Purity Principle
But in a special manner, the pure in heart has, in some good measures, gained the mastery over those vile affections, and sensual indulgences of the flesh, of which it is a shame even to speak, and hardly safe even to reprove.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Purity of Heart", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity