Henry Edward Manning Quotes

Consider who and what you are; who the Spirit is that is grieved, what he has done for you, what he comes to your soul about, what he has already done in you; and be ashamed. Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness than this: That the blessed Spirit, who has undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoices when his temple is kept undefiled.

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

You may have living and habitual conversation in heaven, under the aspect of the most simple, ordinary life. Remember that holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

True beauty consists of purity of heart.

The more holy, the more humble.

A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.

I want to be pure in heart -- but I like to wear my purple dress.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

The purer your heart, the lighter your spirit will be. The lighter your spirit, the closer to light it will float. The closer to light it is permitted to go, the higher it will float. The higher it floats, the closer to God you will be. Heaven has seven layers. The vibrations of your good deeds, which will be reflected by the weight of your conscience and the purity of your heart, will determine the layer in which your soul will reside. Your goal is to make your heart as light as a feather. The heavier the heart, the more chained to this hell it will remain.

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

Islam emphasized the internal purity of man that is achieved through the purity of the mind in realizing the Right and the purity of feelings through having the pure intention towards man, far away from the meanness of malevolence and hatred and through the purity of the movement that is not lunched except for the sake of justice, Good and life.

Holiness never goes out of fashion.

The God of popular religion is not holy.

Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?