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• Everything we do is to be offered to the Lord; and if done so with a pure heart of love, it becomes holy.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Done, Lord

  Joyce Meyer (1998). “Life in the Word Devotional”

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• A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Heart, Doe, Want

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Writing

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• When a man’s heart is right with God the mysterious utterances of the Bible are spirit and life to him. Spiritual truth is discernible only to a pure heart, not to a keen intellect. It is not a question of profundity of intellect, but of purity of heart.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.30, Discovery House

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• He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Judging

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• The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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• HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

  Alice Walker

  Heart, Laughing, Humour

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

  Jack Kornfield

  Buddhist, Pain, Heart

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.27, Random House

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• Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  God, Wisdom, Religious

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• The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

  Jeremiah

  Heart, Wicked, Deceit

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• God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

  Voltaire

  Prayer, Heart, Wicked

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4294, Delphi Classics

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• Your life will be joyful and complete when you have a pure heart and your motives are unsullied.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Purity

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• When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

  Masiela Lusha

  Heart, Acting, Selfless

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• My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

  Rumi

  Heart, Soul, Crow

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• We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.

  Beth Moore

  Spiritual, Heart, Pride

  Beth Moore (2010). “Paul: 90 Days on His Journey of Faith”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Prayer, Heart, Meditation

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• Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!

  David Belle

  Father, Heart, Son

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• If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Errors, Simplicity

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• The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name

  Edith Stein

  Heart, Holy Eucharist, Names

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• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Heart, Mean

  "Sketches and Travels in London: To which are Added Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches".

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• I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

  Ishmael Beah

  Believe, Heart, Views

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• The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heart, Curse, Effects

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probaby, each of them, a hundred records, and never be repeated. There's enough songs. Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Children, Writing

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