Augustus Hare Quotes

To the Puritan all things are impure.

Pure by impure is not seen.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus

[Utah is] A place not desired by the wicked.

The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.

I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

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

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

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love.

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity