Pure Quotes

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

Man as a pure animal does not exist.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.

I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure.