Quotes about Pure
Temptations and struggles will remain to the end of our lives, but with a pure heart we will be restful even in the midst of a restless existence.
- Henri Nouwen
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
- Origen
Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will still bring you happiness again, as long as you live. As long as you can look fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness.
- Anne Frank
Christ was pure; absolutely pure. He was the Holy One. He had an infinite abhorrence of sin. He loathed it. His holy soul shrank from it. But on the Cross our iniquities were all laid upon Him, and sin—that vile thing—enrapt itself around Him like a horrible serpent's coils. And yet, He willingly suffered for us! Why? Because He loved us: "Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end" (Joh 13:1).
- AW Pink
Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.
- Marianne Williamson
O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
- John Milton
It has to do with seeing God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8).
- John Piper
Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
- LM Montgomery
He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
- LM Montgomery
Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
- James Allen
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- St. Augustine