Purity Quotes - Page 18

• Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

  Charlotte Mason

  Profound, Simplicity, Language

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

  Andre Gide

  Angel, Play, Joy

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• Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Music, Air, Superiors

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• How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Ignorance, Long, Wonder

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.

  Mark Hopkins

  Honesty, Kindness, Eye

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• Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. 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

  Children, Play, Evil

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

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• If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Powerful, Pride

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• As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.

  Dave Davies

  Spiritual, Mean, Buddhism

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• The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

  Takijiro Onishi

  War, Wind, World

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• the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

  Mary Cantwell

  Music, Hymns, Listening

  Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA

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• Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

  Candace Wheeler

  Party, Successful, Political

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• The power of purity-it is a definite power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Definite

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1458, Manonmani Publishers

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• You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  White, Trying, Pieces

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• Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Might, Enlightened

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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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• Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class. She not only considers herself the equal of man, but his superior, especially in her purity, goodness, and morality. Small wonder that the American suffragist claims for her vote the most miraculous powers. In her exalted conceit she does not see how truly enslaved she is, not so much by man, as by her own silly notions and traditions. Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Silly, Men

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.57, PM Press

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• I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Self, Desire, Noble

  Jimmy Carter (1976). “"I'll Never Lie to You": Jimmy Carter in His Own Words”

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• Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Silence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3510, Manonmani Publishers

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• You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Age, Growing

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield (1954). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 November, 1785 to 22 June, 1786”

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• The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.

  Lauren Bacall

  Girl, Nice, Burden

  Lauren Bacall (2010). “By Myself and Then Some”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.

  James Madison

  Successful, Government, Perfect

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• We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1142, Delphi Classics

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• To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself

  James Madison

  Government, Land, House

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• The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Essence, Empowering

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