Quotes about Purity
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
- Tertullian
For those with the purity to see it, a nursing mother is one of the most precious, most beautiful, and most holy of all possible images of woman.
- Christopher West
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
- Albert Einstein
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
- Jonathan Edwards
There is nothing more foreign, more alien, to our nature than holiness.
- RC Sproul
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
- Walt Whitman
Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold.
- Jon Gordon
A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
- William Wordsworth
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- Thomas Merton
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
- St. Anthony of Padua
Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.
- Paul Washer
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
- Malcolm Muggeridge