Purity Quotes
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In looking up the word in Webster’s dictionary I found the term “nigger” very descriptive: “a vulgar, offensive term of hostility and contempt for the black man.” I can’t think of anything that defines better and more accurately what our position toward the nigger should be than what the dictionary said. If we are going to be for racial integrity and racial purity... we must take a hostile position toward the nigger. We must give him nothing but contempt.
Ben Klassen
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I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].
David LaChapelle
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames
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People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.
Ana Castillo
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Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to singer , but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.
Sarah Vaughan
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Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
Bertrand Tavernier
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Waiting on God means increasing purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
Gautama Buddha
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How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.
Harold B. Lee
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I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
David Jeremiah
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The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.
Shinichi Suzuki
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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
William Gurnall
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Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.
Archimedes
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The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their souls those principles of personal purity, integrity, and character which foster the development of peace. Peace cannot be imposed. It must come from the lives and hearts of men. There is no other way.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.
George Barna
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The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!
Lord Byron
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I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.
William Wordsworth
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
Berthold Auerbach
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What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.
Seneca the Younger
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We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.
Mahatma Gandhi