Purity Quotes

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

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.

The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

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.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.