Purity Quotes - Page 29

• There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  People, Missions, Questionable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Real, Soul, Quality

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.237, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  Takijiro Onishi

  War, Wind, World

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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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• 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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• For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Expression, Mind, Movement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, World, Way

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• Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hard Work, Heart, Balance

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• In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

  Rex Reed

  Passion, Angel, Greatness

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• May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

  Ashoka

  Country, Heart, Doctrine

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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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• Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

  E. M. Forster

  Obsession, Obsessed, Reformers

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• I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.

  Larry Clark

  Years, Ideas, Down And

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• If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must... declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied - a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its holy words.... The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.

  B. B. Warfield

  Writing, Care, Tests

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• Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Simplicity, Enjoy, Reach Out

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• A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

  Max Anders

  Spiritual, Pride, Desire

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Depth, Innocence

  Phedre act 4, sc. 2 (1677)

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• Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Truth

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.173, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Struggle, Fall, Sacrifice

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