Purity Quotes

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
Ron Wyden

Legal, Judge, Hard

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
Karen Armstrong

Lose, Fail, Traditions

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller

Wisdom, Human, Keep

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.
Jane Campion

Love, Read, Story

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
Padma Lakshmi

Food, Blessed, Simple

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

Faith, Knowledge, Speak

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

Life, Work, Nothing

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

Death, Eyes, Light

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
Josh McDowell

Design, Live, Anyone

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

Change, God, Real

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

Sacrifice, Through, Made

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

Life, Nice, Live

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

Become, Language, Bible

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
John Strachan

Feeling, Jesus, Christian

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
Barry Mann

Enough, Guitar, Played

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett

Beauty, Heart, Focus

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Nature, Truth, Keep

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

Religion, Long, State

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.
Louis Farrakhan

Islam, Desire, Practiced

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.
Charles Eastman

Women, Woman, Said

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.
Donald Judd

Art, Else, Call

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
Paul Bettany

America, Films, Europe

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
Azar Nafisi

Religion, Time, Past

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
Johan Huizinga

Opinion, Public, Looks

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Goldwin Smith

Himself, Heaven, Heard

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

Truth, Honor, Feminine

Anyone who wants to look at sunlight naturally wipes his eye clear first, in order to make, at any rate, some approximation to the purity of that on which he looks; and a person wishing to see a city or country goes to the place in order to do so.
Athanasius

Person, Country, Place

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.
Daniel Berrigan

Heart, Done, Somewhere

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

Cannot, High, Favor

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
Derek Jarman

Men, Turn, Straight

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