Top 100 Be Pure Quotes
#1. Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
Beau Willimon
#2. The pure heart is one that is entirely cut away from self. To be selfless is to be pure.
Abdu'l- Baha
#3. The system doesn't have to be pure, but it does have to work.
Aminu Kano
#4. Revenge can be bitter sweet, but if you sit back and watch, karma can be pure entertainment
Narendra Nekkanti
#5. If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.
Josephus
#6. If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
Jon Foreman
#7. I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#8. For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big statement for summer. Then we have light blue, light turquoise, lots of pink.
Gianni Versace
#9. Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.
Victor Hugo
#10. Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.
That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.
And your body has been cursed with it.
Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades
Kia Carrington-Russell
#11. Obedience, to be perfect, must be voluntary; it must be pure and cheerful. But most of all it must be internal. I would add that it must also be blind and persevering.
Michael Molinos
#12. Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil
#13. An artist must be pure of heart," said Gerdes, "for true art is the expression of the artist's innermost being. To create beauty, one must be beautiful" - she pressed her hands to her bosom - "in here, in your heart of hearts.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#14. I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
Anais Nin
#15. The Force which has to be called down from above must be pure and quiet because there are all kinds of forces - it will not do to call them all. And one must have sincerity.
Sri Aurobindo
#16. Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure
Virginia Woolf
#17. If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.
Hugh B. Brown
#18. I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.
Jessie J.
#19. My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you and you can feel how pure and innocent it is, so much that it makes your stomach feel empty - probably 'cause you realize you used to be pure like that, too, and now you're not.
Matt De La Pena
#20. There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay ... the essay must be pure
pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.
Virginia Woolf
#21. In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.
Simone Weil
#23. May all your joys be pure joys, and all your pain champagne.
Mrs. Graham
#24. Women have to be pure and respectful.
Tyson Fury
#26. A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.
Gunter Grass
#27. The teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be Pure.
Gautama Buddha
#29. Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
Rita Mae Brown
#31. Only the soul that is naked and unashamed, can be pure and innocent , even as Adam was in the primal garden of humanity .
Sri Aurobindo
#32. It is good to know; it is better to do; it is best to be. To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, ...
S.D. Gordon
#33. My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.
Marilyn Manson
#34. Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
Sri Chinmoy
#35. Fate refuses to stop at the pretty part of the tale; Fate insists on more tests of courage and wit, a terrible end, even if the heroine's heart be pure and her crime accidental.
Susann Cokal
#36. Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light ...
I just want to be pure.
Jim Carroll
#37. To be pure, forgive yourself.
To love others, forgive them first.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#40. But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Origen
#41. Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
John Lancaster Spalding
#43. What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps around and without sin and the Curse and all the pain, sorrow and crying! It will be pure pleasure to have children in Heaven!
David Berg
#44. There is nothing sane about the worship of beauty. It is too splendid to be sane. Those of whose lives it forms the dominant note will always seem to the world to be pure visionaries.
Oscar Wilde
#45. One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and start advertising or selling things. This etiquette rule is an attempt to separate one's social life, which should be pure enjoyment and relaxation, from the pressures of work.
Judith Martin
#46. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.
Gloria Steinem
#47. If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
Ben Okri
#48. Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure ... a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.
Pope John Paul II
#49. You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments ...
John Gray
#50. The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.
Barack Obama
#51. Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
Lord Byron
#52. My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.
Thomas Jefferson
#53. Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#54. A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Edgar Allan Poe
#55. I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
Roland Emmerich
#56. Even the most complicated and the most profound message can be given in a simplest way! Be like a light beam entering into a dark sanctuary: Be clear, be pure, and be simple!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.
Nirmala Srivastava
#58. Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye - the body can never be pure.
Anthony Doerr
#59. This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.
Jorie Graham
#60. If you will not determine to be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
George MacDonald
#61. If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
Brian Molko
#62. Yet the Teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be pure. At the end of the way is freedom.
Gautama Buddha
#64. To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
Karl Kraus
#65. But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!
Jenny Offill
#66. There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education.
Astra Taylor
#67. The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#68. If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure.
Wu Cheng'en
#70. I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine ... ninety-five ... ninety-two ... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?
Francesca Lia Block
#71. Please enter where You already abide. May my mind and heart be pure and true, and may I not deviate from the things of goodness.
Marianne Williamson
#72. Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.
Horace
#73. Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.
John Ashbery
#74. I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence.
Crystal Renn
#75. I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
Mahatma Gandhi
#76. I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer;
I would be brave, for there is much to dare.
Howard Arnold Walter
#78. Give thanks for what had been given to you,
However little. Be pure, never falter.
Gautama Buddha
#79. Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.
Mikhail Naimy
#80. The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.
Gautama Buddha
#81. Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
James Allen
#82. To be pure, to remain pure, can only come at a price, the price of knowing God and loving him enough to do his will. He will always give us the strength we need to keep purity as something as beautiful for him.
Mother Teresa
#83. The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
Ouida
#85. We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.
Peter Julian Eymard
#86. God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#87. Makeup can be pure fantasy
it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.
Jessica Alba
#88. If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Ramakrishna
#89. Perhaps nothing in this broken world can be pure or of a piece, unfractured.
Dean Koontz
#90. To fight with demons, your intent must be pure. And even then, there's no guarantee you'll win.
Simon R. Green
#91. The brain is the organ and instrument of the mind, and controls the whole body. In order for the other parts of the system to be healthy, the brain must be healthy. And in order for the brain to be healthy, the blood must be pure.
Dennis E. Smith
#92. 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.
John Calvin
#93. Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day ... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Sophie Swetchine
#95. I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
Tahar Rahim
#96. Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at anything, but bids them look on him. If they do that he knows that their gaze will always be pure, even when they look upon a woman.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#97. Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.
Jurgen Moltmann
#98. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
Matthew Henry
#99. I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.
David Plotz
#100. Be fair. Don't present your version of the truth to others. Lose your ulterior motives! Be accurate and pure in your presentation of the way, and you will become the way.
Frederick Lenz
