Purity Quotes

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

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

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

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.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.