Quotes about Pure

Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul that experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses.

Relationship with Jesus must be kept pure and simple. Introducing you to any facet of prayer without making this clear would set you up for frustration and eventual failure. Our motivation for prayer must be relationship—communing with God.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

Hail to you gods…On that day of the great reckoning.Behold me, I have come to you,Without sin, without guilt, without evil,Without a witness against me,Without one whom I have wronged….Rescue me, protect me,Do not accuse me before the great god!I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

In vain do Papists, Mahometans, and other sects, boast of their antiquity, while they are mere counterfeits of the true, the pure religion.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

Remember, anthropologically, religion begins with the making of a distinction between the pure and the impure. Jesus consistently ignores such a distinction. In fact, it is at the heart of almost half of his gospel actions!

As my father, St. Francis, put it, when the heart is pure, "Love responds to Love alone" and has little to do with duty, obligation, requirement, or heroic anything. It is easy to surrender when you know that nothing but Love and Mercy is on the other side.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.