A Quotes
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“A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.
If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“A pure chit (internal component of knowledge and vision) is itself an absolute supreme Soul.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788
“A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.”
“A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of Government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.”
“A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!”
“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)
“A pure heart and mind are owned by the individuals who are completely human.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.”
Source: The Dresden Files Collection 1-6
“A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.”
Source: Killosophy
“A pure heart is nothing more than being real with God, and not pretending to honor and adore Him. Will you do this? Give God praise freely?
The decision is yours. Only you can change your attitude towards worshipping God.”
“A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged in the loving will of God.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity such a heart has become like a writing-tablet beautifully smoothed and polished, God comes to dwell in it and writes there His own laws.”
“A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.”
Source: Now and at the Hour of Our Death
“A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.”
Source: The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
“A pure heart wide awake with love becomes the very epitome of truth.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.”
“A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.”
“A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?”
“A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.”
Source: New Collected Poems
“A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol”
“A pure prayer approaches God, and a sweet smile fragrances the hearts and minds; such ways become a blessed-life.”
“A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.”
“A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.”
“A pure white puppy followed on the girl’s heels, barking, and the girl laughed in the breathless, drunken way of children as she ran into the hallway.”
Source: Dreamfever
“A pure woman is better than a hundred yogis. Women are more open to love God.”
“A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to the honor of God, and inwardly being still and quiet, seeks not itself in any thing it doth.”
“A purely capitalist ecosystem is like a wild forest — It’s beautiful and great and productive. But the application of design principles which utilize the natural capabilities already there will result in a luscious fruit garden that is more beautiful, more great, and more productive. A permaculture economy is that luscious fruit garden.”
Source: Principles of a Permaculture Economy
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.”
Source: What is an Emotion?
“A purely intellectual worldview entirely without mysticism is absurd.”
Source: Meine Weltansicht
“A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility”
“A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man is purely mental because man is not just a disembodied mind. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. It is only by making our knowledge part of ourselves, through action, that we enter into the reality that is signified by our concepts.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.”
“A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.”
“A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.”
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
“A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.”
“A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.”
“A Puritan twist in our nature makes us think that anything good for us must be twice as good if it's hard to swallow. Learning Greek and Latin used to play the role of character builder, since they were considered to be as exhausting and unrewarding as digging a trench in the morning and filling it up in the afternoon. It was what made a man, or a woman -- or more likely a robot -- of you. Now math serves that purpose in many schools: your task is to try to follow rules that make sense, perhaps, to some higher beings; and in the end to accept your failure with humbled pride. As you limp off with your aching mind and bruised soul, you know that nothing in later life will ever be as difficult.
What a perverse fate for one of our kind's greatest triumphs! Think how absurd it would be were music treated this way (for math and music are both excursions into sensuous structure): suffer through playing your scales, and when you're an adult you'll never have to listen to music again. And this is mathematics we're talking about, the language in which, Galileo said, the Book of the World is written. This is mathematics, which reaches down into our deepest intuitions and outward toward the nature of the universe -- mathematics, which explains the atoms as well as the stars in their courses, and lets us see into the ways that rivers and arteries branch. For mathematics itself is the study of connections: how things ideally must and, in fact, do sort together -- beyond, around, and within us. It doesn't just help us to balance our checkbooks; it leads us to see the balances hidden in the tumble of events, and the shapes of those quiet symmetries behind the random clatter of things. At the same time, we come to savor it, like music, wholly for itself. Applied or pure, mathematics gives whoever enjoys it a matchless self-confidence, along with a sense of partaking in truths that follow neither from persuasion nor faith but stand foursquare on their own. This is why it appeals to what we will come back to again and again: our **architectural instinct** -- as deep in us as any of our urges.”
Source: Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free
“A purple sash crosses his doublet, pinned to his chest by a dozen medals he's never won from a hundred battlefields he's never stepped foot on.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”
“A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.”
“A purpose does not just happen, it is cultivated.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“A purpose driven woman always does her best, to ensure that purpose prevails.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose-driven woman does not stand in the way of others, because she is always on the move.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose driven woman does not stand on the way of others, because she is always on the move.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose-driven woman is a vessel entrusted by Heaven, to usher others to their purpose.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose-driven woman knows how to distinguish her assignment from that which is not hers.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose-driven woman knows how to inspire others to unleash their purpose.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman
“A purpose-driven woman thrives on supporting others and not on sabotaging them. She is a bigger person who makes a big difference in the world.”
Source: Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman