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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. -- Thomas a Kempis
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of heart is to will one thing. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity. -- John Henry Newman
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. -- Swami Vivekananda
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. -- Chanakya
Purity is the fruit of prayer. -- Mother Teresa
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement. -- Simone Weil
Purity without balance is its own corruption. -- V. E. Schwab
Purity is the power to contemplate defilement. -- Simone Weil
Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want. -- Swami Vivekananda
Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent. -- Saint Augustine
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. -- David Hare
Purity of life is the highest and truest art. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of heart is what enables us to see. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. -- Hosea Ballou
Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature. -- William Faulkner
Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God. -- Joshua Harris
Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry. -- Steven Levitt
Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall. -- Catherine Doherty
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. -- Cyril Connolly
Purity is when there is no anxiety, no worry, no thinking. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Purity and stillness give the correct law to all under heaven. -- Laozi
Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another. -- Gautama Buddha
Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom. -- Eric Ludy
Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman. -- Madame de Stael
Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. -- H. A. L. Fisher
Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world. -- William Faulkner
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility. -- Josemaria Escriva
Spend time with spiritual friends, those who seek light. Purity is gained through strength. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country. -- George Washington
Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow. -- Swami Vivekananda
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections. -- F.B. Meyer
Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling. -- Thomas a Kempis
Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away. -- Rajneesh
Don't be offended by your lack of purity. Purity is a seed that will grow and develop. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self. -- Frederick Lenz
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver. -- Thomas a Kempis
Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James A. Baldwin
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design. -- Josh McDowell
Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you. -- Vanna Bonta
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. -- Eric Liddell
Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives. -- Ed Parker
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Purity is not about following a list of rules so that you'll avoid hell. It's about wanting heaven for the person you love. -- Jason Evert
There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living. -- Lily Montagu
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide. -- Alice Glass
A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations. -- Zicheng Hong
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self. -- Dietrich von Hildebrand
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection! -- Aleister Crowley
Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Go to the Source of Purity; there you will find the truth. Go to the river of Acheron; there you will find the human truth, it is, however, fed by lies. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Telling the truth to yourself is Integrity; Telling the truth to others is Honesty; Telling the truth with no fear or intimidation is Bravity and being free from falsehood is Purity! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. -- Sivananda
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
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. -- Henri Matisse
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
To the pure all things are pure! -- Marcel Proust
The stream is always purer at its source. -- Blaise Pascal
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention -- Richard Moss
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. -- Matthew Henry
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. -- Henry David Thoreau
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. -- Margaret Fuller
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. -- Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. -- Jean Paul
It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action. -- Syncletica of Alexandria
To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him. -- Mother Teresa
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
The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this! -- Peter Julian Eymard
Rare is the union of beauty and purity. -- Juvenal
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. -- Gautama Buddha
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. -- Michael J. Fox
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom. -- Uri Geller
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy. -- Dave Davies
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. -- Solomon Northup
I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian. -- John Woo
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. -- Arthur Helps
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance. -- P. T. Barnum
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. -- John Lennon
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici. -- Bayard Taylor
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. -- Saint Ambrose
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. -- Werner Herzog
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected. -- Elijah Wood
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. -- Charles Spurgeon
For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh. -- Jerry Seinfeld
I have a purity ring. -- Teyana
Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Waiting on God means increasing purity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The price of purity is purists. -- Calvin Trillin
Learn from the purity of nature. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Behave simply and hold on to purity. -- Laozi
Without purity it's impossible to realize God. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
True beauty consists of purity of heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
This purity is attained through conquering the passions. -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
In deep meditation we see nothing but purity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Allow the purity of evil to guide you. -- The Undertaker
The power of purity-it is a definite power. -- Swami Vivekananda
In politics, purity is the enemy of victory -- Haley Barbour
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy. -- Sathya Sai Baba
True beauty lies in purity of the heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We want his power more than his purity. -- David Wilkerson
What power is higher than the power of purity? -- Swami Vivekananda

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