#purity

A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God’s attention. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#clean-heart #purity #beauty

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. (Not for nothing does Amazon.com include diet and exercise books on its "Religion and Spirituality" bestseller list. ....) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#exercise #puritanical #purity #vanity #yoga

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#fore #freedom #goodness #human #only

The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched. ↗

— Diet Eman

#purity #wonder #diet

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #even #inaction #iron #loses

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#purity #well

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

#certainty #continent #cries #ears #favor

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

#activist #agenda #ahead #hard #ideological

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#consciousness #corruption #feet #individuality #mind