Purity Quotes - Page 13

• The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.

  Spiros Zodhiates

  Heart, Outcomes, Natural

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• Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

  Mary Rodgers

  Heart, Ambition, People

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee.

  Anne Bronte

  Air, Wind, Sea

  Anne Bronte (1859). “Agnes Grey”, p.194, Library of Alexandria

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• Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Winning, Joy, Discrete

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.

  Kato

  Mother, Father, Princess

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• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Sex, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

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• My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Light, Giving

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• What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never falter. The good man, the man who infects hardly anyone, is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention.

  Albert Camus

  Integrity, Men, Good Man

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• Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Reading, Talking

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• The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Reality, Essence

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• When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Joy, Serenity

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• In whatever you are doing, be one: body, soul, mind. Do it beautifully and with purity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Soul, Mind, Body

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Cities, Soul

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.73

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• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  Matthew Simpson

  Sacrifice, Men, Heaven

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and concentration. Japa can be done at any time, anywhere, without observing any rule regarding the purity of mind and body. Japa can be done while engaged in any task.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Dark, Meditation

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• If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

  Michael Jackson

  Lonely, Heart, Sadness

  Song: Is It Scary?

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• Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

  Moss Hart

  Heart, Play, People

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

  Paul Bettany

  Opportunity, Europe, America

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• I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Order, Giving, Groups

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• Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Humility, Buddhism

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• Kundalini is generated through cultivating humility, purity, through meditation, selfless giving, and by studying with an advanced teacher on a personal level.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Humility, Buddhism

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• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

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