Purity Concept Quotes

The purity of man is the absence of something, the purity of Jesus is the presence of something.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

Nothing truly wild is unclean.

The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.