“He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute and a temple of God. He has become a harp by preserving the harmony of the virtues; a flute by receiving the inspiration of the Spirit through divine contemplation; and a temple by becoming a dwelling place of the Logos through the purity of his intellect.” SoulBodyInspirationChristianSpiritualSpiritVirtueDivineBecomingHarmonyIntellectContemplationPurityTemplesOrthodoxReceivingDwellingOrthodox ChristianHarpsLogosFlutesDwelling PlaceSpiritual Knowledge Author:Maximus the Confessor
“I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian.” LooksImportantSometimesChristianBeautifulAnd LovePurityDoveMessengersPeace And LoveMessenger Of God Author:John Woo
“When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.” ChristianReligionHouseBreakCasesMoralityCharityPurityPlatesAttemptingFind MeHypocriteRobbersPretence Book:Selected Letters of Edmund Burke Source: Selected Letters of Edmund Burke
“This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things.” IfsWorldChristianThis WorldTearsSlaveryFilledPurityVulgarClawsProfaneInconsequentialDishonorable Book:A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living Source: A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living
“If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.” IfsMenAgeChristianUsedPowerfulLaughingVirtueConditionsPrideWeaponsDevilOvercomingDearAll TimePreservesPurityAcquireRejectsMost PowerfulLegionRosaryPowerful WeaponsHoly RosaryPraying The Rosary Author:Pope Pius XI