#purity

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

#human-folly #purity #beauty

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

Purity, they imagined, was only becoming in those on whom fortune had not smiled. It is the moon which has room or stains, not the stars. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#purity #home

It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy. ↗

— Luis Sepúlveda

#purity #jealousy

When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it. ↗

— Sufian Chaudhary

#house-of-god #life #purity #spiritual-books #spirituality

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

— Honoré de Balzac

#girls #love #purity #self-sacrifice #suffering

The true essence of who you are, balances itself upon a cushion of purity, benevolence, and holiness. ↗

— Garey Gordon

#identity-love #purity-of-heart #love

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