P Quotes
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“Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.”
“Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.”
“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”
Source: FAULKNER READER
“Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.”
“Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.”
“Purity is as necessary as pleasure.”
“Purity is as necessary as power.”
“Purity is defined by
the clearness of the stars”
“Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.”
“Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.”
“Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.”
“Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light.”
“Purity is more to be desire than mere pleasure”
“Purity is necessary for the power of victory.”
“Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love.”
“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.”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“Purity is power.”
“Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.”
“Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.”
“Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.”
Source: Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.
“Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.”
“Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.”
Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
“Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.”
“Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.”
“Purity is the fruit of prayer.”
“Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.”
“Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.”
“Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking.”
Source: Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar
“Purity leads to generic life”
“Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.”
“Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.”
“Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.”
“Purity of all things lies in praise.”
“Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.”
“Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.”
“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
Source: The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
“Purity of heart is what enables us to see.”
Source: Jesus of Nazareth
“Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.”
“Purity of life is the highest and truest art.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.”
“Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.”
Source: Collected Works
“Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“Purity of pain leads to pure joy.”
“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”
Source: True Education
“Purity of prayer lies in its possibilities.”
“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”
“Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.”
Source: Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]
“Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.”
“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.”