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Quotes about Purity

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
— Oscar Wilde
To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
— Jack Kerouac
So I went up and there she was, the girl with the pure and innocent dear eyes that I had always searched for and for so long. We agreed to love each other madly.
— Jack Kerouac
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
— Jack Kerouac
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach others restraint?
— Polycarp
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
— John Calvin
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
— St. Jerome
Character is more than a man-to-his-God humility, for it involves transparency and accountability to others, not merely a private quest for purity.
— James Hayford
Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.
— Pope John Paul II
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
— CS Lewis
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
— Hippocrates
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
— AW Tozer