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Purity Quotes (page 5)

Leo Tolstoy quote: "He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them...."
He wanted and needed their love, but felt none towards them. He now had neither love nor humility nor purity Leo Tolstoy
Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit. John Locke
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a..."
I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. Jean-Paul Sartre
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust. Marina Warner
Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. Jiddu Krishnamurti
The supremacy of God in all things is the greatreward we long for in fasting. His supremacy in our own affections and in all our life-choices. His supremacy in the purity of the church. His supremacy in the salvation of the lost. Hissupremacy in the establishing of righteousness and justice. And his supremacy for the joy of all peoples in the evangelization of the world. John Piper
How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? Thisis Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting. Doug Coupland
Yukio Mishima quote: "Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line..."
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood. Yukio Mishima
I understand that the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of sound achieved by the pig. Alfred Hitchcock
Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers could be fined 10 per loaf sold, or made to do a month's hard labor in prison. For a time, transportation to Australia was seriously considered for malfeasant bakers. This was a matter of real concern for bakers because every loaf of bread loses weight in baking through evaporation, so it is easy to blunder accidentally. For that reason, bakers sometimes... Bill Bryson
There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world. Oscar Wilde
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again. Gustave Flaubert
Jack Kerouac quote: "It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity..."
It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. Jack Kerouac
Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self. Tobias Wolff
Confucius quote: "He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins..."
He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations. Confucius

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