Quotes about Impure
“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
- Acts 10:14
But the voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’
- Acts 11:9
The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
- James Allen
Pornography is anything that depicts lewdness in such a way as to create impure thoughts and lusts. However, the sewers continue to flow, destroying the moral fabric of our society.
- Billy Graham
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
- St. Augustine
Remember, anthropologically, religion begins with the making of a distinction between the pure and the impure. Jesus consistently ignores such a distinction. In fact, it is at the heart of almost half of his gospel actions!
- Fr. Richard Rohr