P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.”
Source: Young India
“Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being.”
“Purgatory is hell with hope.”
Source: To Your Scattered Bodies Go
“Purgatory is temporary but heaven will be infinite.”
Source: In Limbo
“Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.”
Source: Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
“Purgatory was a bit damp,’ said Bengt, ‘but heaven was more or less as I’d imagined it.”
Source: Kon-Tiki
“Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.”
Source: DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
“Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley
“Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.”
“Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.”
“Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circumstances.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.”
Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
“purification in fire. public cremation”
“Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light”
“Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.”
Source: Collected Works
“Purify, Purify. Purify thy sacred soul.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Purify the mind through selfless service.”
“Purify thy sacred soul.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Purify your actions and words, so that you will not add more fuel to those who lack these attributes within them.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.”
“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”
“Purify your life by keeping the commandments. This will help you qualify for the Spirit, who will assist you in your quest.”
“Purify your purpose, and Allah will purify your circle.”
“Purify your thoughts. Let them reflect your well-thought-out dreams. Clear your mind of distractions so that you can focus on where you are going.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.”
“Purify yourself with positive thoughts.”
“Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.”
“Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.”
“Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.”
“Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.”
Source: Language Change: Progress Or Decay?
“Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.”
Source: True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans
“Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.”
Source: The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
“Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.”
Source: Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were
“Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.”
“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”
Source: Among My Books: Six Essays
“Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
“Puritans, like poachers, shoot to kill your inner bonobo”
Source: The Bonobo Way
“Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.”
“Puritans should wear fig leaves over their eyes.”
“Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
“Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven.”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“Purity begins with a prayer.”
“Purity comes from Seva... it comes from selfless love.”
“Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.”
“Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.”
Source: I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance
“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”
“Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”
Source: The Canterbury tales