Moral Purity Quotes

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

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

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, — and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Marvelous are the innocent.

Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.