Best sacred & pure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.”

Men Heart Hands Causes Honest He Man Pure Sacred Warm Proof Doctrine Preaching Exhibits

Book:The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

Source: The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

“Meditate upon my counsels; love them; follow them; To the divine virtues will they know how to lead thee. I swear it by the One who in our hearts engraved The sacred Tetrad , symbol immense and pure, Source of Nature and model of the Gods.”

Knows Heart Know How Virtue Divine Source Pure Models Sacred Symbols Thee Immense Swear Engraved

Author:Pythagoras

“You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.”

World Whole Mother Divine Pure Responsible Sacred Whole World Household

Book:The Outlook

Source: The Outlook

“This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.”

Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

“Never, never, before Heaven, have I thought of you but as the single, bright, pure, blessed recollection of my boyhood and my youth. Never have I from the first, and never shall I to the last, regard your part in my life, but as something sacred, never to be lightly thought of, never to be esteemed enough, never, until death, to be forgotten.”

Love Firsts Enough Lasts Heaven Youth Pure Regard Blessed Sacred Forgotten Recollection Boyhood Thoughts Of You

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“Our assignment is not only to make visits but to consistently carry the Spirit into homes, to bless families with the pure love of Christ, to inspire, encourage, lift, and fortify. Every home is in need of additional support. Visiting teachers bring that blessed reinforcement. It is a sacred trust we have been given. We can overcome the obstacles.”

Needs Has Beens Home Spirit Given Christ Support Teacher Inspire Pure Overcoming Blessed Sacred Obstacles Lifts Bless Consistently Visiting Assignments Pure Love Reinforcement

Author:Bonnie D. Parkin

“Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls. The powers folded up in the little ones that you hushed to sleep in your bosoms last night, are powers that shall exist forever. You are preparing them for their immortal destiny and influence. Be faithful. Take up your sacred burden reverently. Be sure that your heart is pure and that your life is sweet and clean.”

“The sacred thread and the tuft of hair without a pure heart and a spirit of toleration do not make a Hindu.”

Heart Spirit Hair Pure Sacred Hinduism Thread Toleration Pure Heart

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.”

Mind Causes Pure Sacred Response Defeat Purity Purification Make Up Your Mind

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.”

May Mean Action Opinion Enemy Influence Duty Pure Activity Messages Sacred Obstacles Spread Deception Triumph Zeal Civics Propagation Fabricate

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!”

Heart Mean Feelings Past Beautiful Names My Heart Pure Sacred Forgiving Dear Dare Deeper Sentiments Forgive Me Times Past Scarlett O Hara Rhett Butler

Book:Gone with the wind

Source: Gone with the wind

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

Art Pure Sacred

Book:The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Edition

Source: The Mill on the Floss: Easyread Edition

“But there is a beauty every girl has—a gift from God, as pure as the sunlight, and as sacred as life. It is a beauty that all men love, a virtue that wins all men's souls. That beauty is chastity. Chastity without skin beauty may enkindle the soul; skin beauty without chastity can kindle only the eye. Chastity enshrined in the mold of true womanhood will hold true love eternally.”

Men May Soul Eye Girl Winning Virtue Pure Skins Sacred Sunlight Womanhood Mold Gift From God Chastity Kindles Every Girl True Womanhood

Author:David O. McKay

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

Love Age Together Force Greater Pure Sacred Depth Mutual Sense Of Humor Mutual Respect Unwavering

Book:Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel

“So his life has flowed, From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure, Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill, May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.”

Life May Light Beautiful Pure Shapes Shadow Sacred Depth Rounds Calm Ill Surface Mysterious Streams

Author:Thomas Noon Talfourd

“Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's history when that torch was extinguished. In all ages, in all climes, among all people, there has been true, pure, and unselfish love.”

People World Life Has Beens Age Natural Love Is Forever Pure Sacred Flames Love Life Torches Unselfish Unselfish Love

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”

Source: Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence

“Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.”

Shows Seems Pure Sacred Passionate Excellent Relief Categories Translations Explorers Like Her Obscene Profane Admirer Hypnotic

Author:Benjamin Moser

“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”

Ifs Kind Reason Would Be Certain Dies Generations Ready Pride Bears Pure Shame Sacred Guilt Affair Innocent Carrie Pregnancy Disgrace Ready To Die Cancellation Without A Trace

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and good, that she may teach primarily by her own humble, daily example.”

May Children Mother Process Teach Example Pure Shapes Sacred Burden Humble Reverence

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.”

Doe Play Spirit Culture Social Born Grew Civilization Pure Grew Up Sacred Competition Dancing Arise Impulse Ritual Phases

Author:Johan Huizinga

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