Purity Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Truth, Unity, Virtue

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• The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Light

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• As you learn to accept that the body is transitory, as you watch it with love, but without attachment, the body will develop purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attachment, Watches

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• To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, World

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• In deep meditation we see nothing but purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Deep Meditation

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• God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

  J. G. Holland

  Heart, World, Barnacles

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 393, 1895.

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• To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part of your physical condition and see that these aspects are not really indigenous to what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Desire

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• The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mind, Receiving, May

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.333

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• In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Ideas

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• As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Holy

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• Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Perfection, Ego

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• There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

  Arthur Helps

  Beauty, Humility, Grace

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• Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself, volatile energies that serve as separations between yourself and perfect stillness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Reality

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• Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Divinity

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• Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Grows, Seeds

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• Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Accepting, Increase

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• Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Motivation, Buddhism, People

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• There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Prayer, Buddhism, Light

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• When the mind is not only silent, but that part of the mind that could become conscious that the mind is silent dissolves in light, then we see and feel purity. We become it, the purity of the eternal light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Mind

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• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blessed, Heart, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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• By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Brave, Virtue

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.180

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• At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Morning, Doors, World

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.

  Venerable Bede

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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