Quotes about Purity

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

When life feels heavy, these two remedies relieve life's complexities: simplicity and purity. Simplicity seeks God. Purity enjoys him.

Simplicity ought to be in the intention, purity in the affection.

The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and that without labour, because he receiveth the light of understanding from above. The spirit which is pure, sincere, and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking.

For all that is high is not holy, nor is everything that is sweet good; every desire is not pure; nor is everything that is dear to us pleasing unto God. Willingly do I accept that grace whereby I am made humbler and more wary and more ready to renounce myself. He who is made learned by the gift of grace and taught wisdom by the stroke of the withdrawal thereof, will not dare to claim any good thing for himself, but will rather confess that he is poor and needy.

Marvelous are the innocent.