#purity

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#instinct #purity #life

The best of all lost arts is honesty ↗

— Mark Twain

#honesty #integerity #purity-of-heart #art

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#feeling #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

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

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil. True enough, everything is evil relatively to Adonai; for all stain is impurity. A bee's swarm is evil — inside one's clothes. "Dirt is matter in the wrong place." It is dirt to connect sex with statuary, morals with art. Only Adonai, who is in a sense the True Meaning of everything, cannot defile any idea. This is a hard saying, though true, for nothing of course is dirtier than to try and use Adonai as a fig-leaf for one's shame. To seduce women under the pretense of religion is unutterable foulness; though both adultery and religion are themselves clean. To mix jam and mustard is a messy mistake. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#adultery #morality #purity #shame #thelema

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

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ↗

— Buddha

#above #evil #prove #purity

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#blood #civilization #morals #our #position