Quotes about Purity
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
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
— CS Lewis
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
— CS Lewis
God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
— Anselm of Canterbury
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
— John of the Cross
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
— John of the Cross