Quotes about Purity
Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The purity of unison singing, unaffected by alien motives of musical techniques, the clarity, unspoiled by the attempt to give musical art an autonomy of its own apart from the words, the simplicity and frugality, the humaneness and warmth of this way of singing is the essence of all congregational singing.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
— Richard Baxter
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
— Ellen Glasgow
I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.
— Jerome
Holiness has to do with more than mere acts. Our motives must be holy, that is, arising from a desire to do something simply because it is the will of God. Our thoughts should be holy, since they are known to God even before they are formed in our minds.
— Jerry Bridges
We can develop the habit of thinking thoughts that are pure, true, and good. We can develop the habits of prayer and meditating on the Scriptures. But these habits will only be developed through frequent repetition.
— Jerry Bridges
We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.
— Jerry Bridges
protected the moral purity of Sarah, who was to be the mother of the promised son of Abraham.
— Jerry Bridges
It is only as we see His holiness, His absolute purity and moral hatred of sin, that we will be gripped by the awfulness of sin against the Holy God. To be gripped by that fact is the first step in our pursuit of holiness.
— Jerry Bridges
His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.
— Jerry Bridges