God is pure, and the same to all.
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
Escape from the power of the hunting pack, and to know that wisdom is best and beauty sheer holiness.
The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages
The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.
Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift that one simply feels constantly in gratitude. So this is my message for you: live in the moment, herenow. That's why I call it divine purity
Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
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.
Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.
Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?
Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.
The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome's Pantheon. It is a strange feeling--no hopefulness is in it, no despair. Content--that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
