Purity Quotes - page 11

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.' (Jeff Greenfield)
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. View quote
John Strachan
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. View quote
Mark Burnett
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person. View quote
Marianne Faithfull
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. View quote
Mimi Rogers
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. View quote
Padma Lakshmi
This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan-making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant. View quote
Rachel Cohn
I have a purity ring. View quote
Teyana Taylor
Bring me your children hither. ... Unto this twain, man-child and womanchild, I give the passion of this element; This seed of longing, substance of this love; This power, this purity, this annihilation. Let their hands light the altar of the world. 'T is yours forever. I have brought it home! View quote
William Vaughn Moody
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. (Daniel Berrigan)
What's the dominant emotion associated with purity? Anger. The most aggressive people are the ones who insist on being utterly pure. It's responsible for countless wars at all levels of society. Far better to have no aspiration, no hope and relate to things just as they are. View quote
Ken McLeod
I see in every Page, Something to recommend Christianity in its Purity and Something to discredit its Corruptions. View quote
John Adams
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice. View quote
Thomas Paine
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. View quote
Ayn Rand
The disciples ... are capable of peacemaking because they are sustained by the purity derived from having no other telos but to enact the kingdom embodied in Jesus. Yet such a people may well be persecuted, as Jesus was persecuted, because they are an alternative to the violence of the world that is too often called "peace." View quote
Stanley Hauerwas
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
When the soul has descended into generation (from its first divine condition) she partakes of evil, and is carried a great way into a state the opposite of her first purity and integrity, to be entirely merged in which, is nothing more than to fall into a dark mire. ...The soul dies as much as it is possible for the soul to die: and the death to her is, while baptized or immersed in the present body, to descend into matter, and be wholly subjected by it; and after departing thence to lie there til it shall arise and turn its face away from the abhorrent filth. This is what is meant by falling asleep in Hades, of those who have come there. View quote
Plotinus
...the Indian tradition of non-violence and purity of motive and means, the tradition of ethical and religious approach to all political questions and noted that these had found a perfect embodiment in Mahatma Gandhi...One could draw up a whole declaration of human rights in terms of ahimsa. If individuals and nations are animated by such a belief in a beneficent Supreme Power; in truth and in human brotherhood, we can look forward to a future free from anxiety and fear and full of hope and promise of happiness. (Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar)
He was not merely the organizer and architect of our freedom, he ennobled our very being. As the apostle not only of truth and ahimsa but also of purity and public conduct he raised us, and indeed the whole of mankind, to a higher level of social and political life. View quote
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. View quote
Cicero
We cannot attain purity, we cannot gain our goal of truth, unless we walk in the path of virtue. The Asoka's wheel represents to us the wheel of the Law, the wheel Dharma. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian read journalist He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings. View quote
Edward Gibbon