Quotes about Purity

Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

The Holy Spirit has consecrated us as temples of God. We, therefore, must let the glory of God shine through us, and we must not pollute ourselves with sin.

Christ does not make new laws; he rectifies the wrong interpretations of the scribes which had vitiated the purity of the law of God.

For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.

This renewal, indeed, is not accomplished in a moment, a day, or a year, but by uninterrupted, sometimes even by slow progress God abolishes the remains of carnal corruption in his elect, cleanses them from pollution, and consecrates them as his temples, restoring all their inclinations to real purity, so that during their whole lives they may practice repentance, and know that death is the only termination to this warfare.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

A clean mind always delivers power.

When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been a preserving fluid rather than a ravaging element; yet her look of indestructible youthfulness made her seem neither hard nor dull, but only primitive and pure.