Quotes about Purity

We are to be Christ's representatives on the earth—pure, kind, just, and merciful, full of compassion, showing unselfishness in word and deed.

In order to be purified and to remain pure, Seventh-day Adventists must have the Holy Spirit in their hearts and in their homes. The Lord has given me light that when the Israel of today humble themselves before Him, and cleanse the soul temple from all defilement, He will hear their prayers in behalf of the sick, and will bless in the use of His remedies for disease.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." MARK 10 : 15

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —PSALM 139:23—24

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. —PSALM 51:10 NKJV

TAKE TIME TO BE HOLY. The word holy does not mean goody-goody; it means set apart for sacred use.

The "pure" in heart know the temptation of externalism and the social honor that comes with being pure in hands, or in observance, or in reputation (15:1—20; 23:25—28).41 But the pure in heart see God as a person to be loved, so their first priority is God, and this love leads to loving others well.

Purity is not the same as morality but is about who or what is fit for the temple, and so classifications are made.