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Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. -- Swami Vivekananda
Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen. -- Harper Lee
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust. -- Marina Warner
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. -- Octavio Paz
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. -- Swami Sivananda
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. -- Georges Bernanos
Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together. -- Vincent Van Gogh
There is only a single step between impurity and purity. -- Berl Katznelson
My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity. -- Euripides
Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another. -- Gautama Buddha
The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure. -- Gautama Buddha
Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls. -- Pope Pius XII
You are the source of all purity and impurity. No one purifies another. -- Gautama Buddha
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity. -- Georges Bernanos
A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity. -- Charles Spurgeon
The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it. -- Philip Neri
Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry. -- Swami Vivekananda
Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable. -- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during, glory and termless joy. -- Walter Raleigh
The transcendental light permeates your being and washes away impurity. All those different selves which are limited and binding and hurting are washed away. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace. -- Philip Yancey
As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. -- Josemaria Escriva
Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. -- John Milton
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. -- Epictetus
In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
We are not naÃ¯ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. -- Jean Rostand
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. -- T. S. Eliot
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity. -- St. Jerome
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it. -- Albion Fellows Bacon
Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy . .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ... -- Mina Loy
Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
So you begin to wonder if Leonia's true passion is really, as they say, the enjoyment of new and different things, and not, instead, the joy of expelling, discarding, cleansing itself of a recurrent impurity. -- Italo Calvino

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