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To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, a...

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...

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He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. ...

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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanat...

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You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any othe...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not ...

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First, if you are a homosexual or feel that inclination, keep yourself pure. If you are unmarried, y...

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Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its ...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

I've heard my teacher say, where there are machines, there are bound to be machine worries; where th...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous ...

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Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley and the Practice of the Magical Diary

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and ...

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Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His ...

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The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and suppl...

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We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolera...

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

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You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who ...

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Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benu...

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The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or expl...

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The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realiz...

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There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would...

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder...

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

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing mor...

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Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish day...

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The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able t...

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the doves, as we know, must be killed according to the law before Mary’s purification can be acknowl...

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José SaramagoThe Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Music — good music, great music — had a hard, irreducible purity to it. It might be bitter and despa...

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Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path...

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What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I w...

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He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, wit...

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts a...

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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interp...

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Marina WarnerAlone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.

Must we always be warned, and can we only fall on our knees when some one is there to tell us that G...

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Maurice MaeterlinckThe Treasure of the humble

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice alway...

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The creative act is not pure.

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Nadine GordimerThe Quotable Gordimer; or

But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth wit...

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