T Quotes
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“The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.”
“The purest essence of our humanity is rooted in the willingness to relinquish the gift of life in order to insure that that gift is preserved in the life of another. And to take the hands of cowardice and reach into the depths of our soul in an attempt to rip those roots out is to relinquish the gift of life without preserving anything in the relinquishment, including ourselves.”
“The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.”
“The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.”
“The purest form of love is the soft glow of understanding that needs no spotlight, quietly illuminating the heart's unspoken spaces.”
“The purest form of prayer we can engage in is to feel peace: the kind of peace that comes when we surrender totally to what is, as is—in the knowledge and comfort that Spirit has it all handled and that it will all work out for the best if we just get ourselves out of the way.”
Source: Radical Forgiveness: A Revolutionary Five-Stage Process to Heal Relationships, Let Go of Anger and Blame, Find Peace in Any Situation
“The purest forms of beauty ever really come from but the greatest of tragedies.”
Source: Conversations I Have of Her
“The purest gift is someone who wants to give you comfort for nothing in return.”
“The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus. They eat his flesh and drink his blood. They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full and free to their soul. They sit under his shadow with great delight. . . . They lean on the Beloved. They find infinite strength in him for the use of their soul — grace for grace — all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end.”
“The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.”
“The purest love is between parents and children. Other loves may be more thrilling, but none are as deep or enduring.”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.”
“The purest magic is in the heart.”
“The purest natural food for human beings would be fresh, uncooked food and nuts. A fare which consists of three-quarters of vegetable food and one-quarter meat would appear to be the most satisfactory.”
“The purest of of all thoughts is praise to God.”
“The purest pleasure is praise to God.”
“The purest pleasure is to praise God.”
“The purest principles of liberty and freedom are rooted in a morality irresistibly greater than the men who aspire to such things. Therefore, despite its allure, we must forcefully cast aside the manufactured morality of fallen men as being nothing less than the anthesis of the precious liberties and fragile freedoms which we can ill-afford to sacrifice on the altar of man’s fabricated morality.”
“The purest regret, no matter what, is thinking you didn't love enough.”
Source: Healology
“The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.”
Source: Counsels of Light and Love of St. John of the Cross
“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”
“The purest thought comes from mediation on word of God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.”
“The purest water is formed by flowing through the muddiest mountains”
“The purest white seems stained.”
“The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.”
“The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me and the pages; there was no escape for me now.”
Source: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
“The purge is made to release the aggression, anger, rage everything just in on place.”
“The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls
“The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)”
“The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.”
Source: Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability
“The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.”
“The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.”
“The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.”
Source: Romola
“The purists are small in number but, you know hardy of voice.”
“The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series
“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”
“The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.”
“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
“The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.”
“The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.”
Source: Nymphs and Rivers: (a Selection from Poems Composed Between 1910 and 1957)
“The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.”
“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.”
Source: Prejudices Second Series
“The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.”
Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945
“The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.”
“The puritanism of Christianity has played havoc with the moderation that an enlightened and tolerant critical spirit would have produced. I've noticed that in whatever country, county, town, or other region there is a regulation enjoining temperance, the population seems to be entirely composed of teetotallers and drunkards. There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote.”
“The Puritans are conventionally considered more "moderate" than the Pilgrims. This is like calling al-Qaeda more moderate than ISIS. The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans were no less mad... They forbade Church of England clergy from setting foot in their new American theocracy in Boston and Salem, hung Quakers, and passed a law to hang any Catholic priests who might dare show up.”
Source: Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History