Purity Quotes

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. (James Baldwin)
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. View quote
Matthew Henry
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. View quote
John Lennon
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. View quote
Margaret Fuller
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
True beauty lies in purity of the heart. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. View quote
Stephen Fry
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. View quote
Emil Cioran
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. View quote
George Washington
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. (Thomas Merton)
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived. View quote
Anselm of Canterbury
Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Purity of heart is to will one thing. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. View quote
Hugh Blair
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. View quote
Milan Kundera
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. View quote
David Hare (dramatist)
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. View quote
Yukio Mishima
I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity. (Mark Rothko)
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence. View quote
Fatimah
Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief). View quote
Fatimah
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall. View quote
Catherine Doherty