#purity

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

— Felix Adler

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‎If heart filled with purity, then mind found the beauty. ↗

— Toba Beta

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The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗

— Hugh Blair

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. ↗

— David Hare

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He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. ↗

— Mimi Rogers

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Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord, She shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version) ↗

— Anonymous

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Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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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

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Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. ↗

— Anonymous

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