George MacDonald Quotes

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Pure by impure is not seen.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage.