purity of soul Quotes

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

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.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not be forgiven. A man who leaves the house in bright, festive clothes needs only one drop of mud splashed from under a wheel, and people all surround him, point their fingers at him, and talk about his slovenliness, while the same people ignore many spots on other passers-by who are wearing everyday clothes. For on everyday clothes the spots do not show.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now the purity of man is chastity, which is called honesty, and the observance of it, honor and also integrity; and its contrary is called corruption; in short, it has this peculiar excellence above the other virtues, that it preserves both soul and body fair and unspotted.

The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.