Purity Quotes - page 3

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. (Ambrose)
For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind. View quote
Rudolf Nureyev
It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all. View quote
Stephen Charnock
The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude. View quote
Shan Sa
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good. View quote
John Piper
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of social order. View quote
Kakuzo Okakura
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. View quote
Solomon Northup
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
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. View quote
Barry Mann
I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian. View quote
John Woo
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit. (Steven Price)
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. View quote
William Ames
We both may be killed by the Muslims, and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
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. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
God desireth not to see, in the Dispensation of the Bayán, any soul deprived of joy and radiance. He indeed desireth that under all conditions, all may be adorned with such purity, both inwardly and outwardly, that no repugnance may be caused even to themselves, how much less unto others. View quote
Báb
.. the great white blanket of snow [in one of his painting of Cemetery / Church in the Snow, mid-1820's].... the essence of the utmost purity, beneath which nature prepares herself for a new life.. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
There's a reason why the French are on their fifth republic, and we are on our first, and that's because we did not have a worship of reason at the beginning of the Founding as the French did, and then discovered that the purity, the Rousseauian idea is simply not one for the real world, or not one that avoids the guillotine... View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I hold that protection is not only bad economy, but that it is an agency at once immoral and oppressive, based as it is and must be on the exploitation of the community in the interest of favoured trades and financial groups. I hold it to be a corrupting system, because honesty and purity of administration must be driven to the wall if once the principle of taxes for revenue be departed from in favour of the other principle, which I conceive to be of the essence of protection-that, namely, of taxes for private beneficiaries. (Henry Campbell-Bannerman)
Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart's deep love. View quote
David Zindell
Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. View quote
James Madison
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. View quote
James Madison
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. View quote
James Madison