Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
George A. Smith

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
John Woolman

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James A. Baldwin

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.
Matthew Simpson

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.
Joyce Maynard

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

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Thomas Kempis

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly

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 is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
David Hare

Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James Madison

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames