Top 63 Defiled Quotes
#1. I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen.
Thomm Quackenbush
#2. We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.
George Bird Grinnell
#3. To defile yourself, yet not really be defiled - that's true purity. If you're fastidious about defilement, you're not going to do anything. You'll never become a real man,
Yukio Mishima
#4. There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.
Henry Ward Beecher
#5. Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.
Richard Baxter
#6. Jesus asked the Father for his disciples' security, sanctity and unity. Jesus still intercedes for us so fervently because we live in a world that is deceived, dangerous, defiled and divided.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#7. By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.
Gautama Buddha
#8. If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
Saint Augustine
#9. Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem.
Mindy McGinnis
#10. If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.
Polycarp
#11. Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom he is defiled by. Is there anything anyone can do, to become righteous, anyway? God made us impure. If he had a problem with that, He would have made us gods, instead.
C. JoyBell C.
#12. The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.
Jake Vander Ark
#13. This is perhaps the greatest lesson that interdependence has to offer us about right livelihood (and right living in general) in the twenty-first century: no person, and no profession, comes out completely clean, ever. On the other hand, no one is inherently defiled.
Ethan Nichtern
#14. God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
J.C. Ryle
#15. It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
Achmat Dangor
#16. The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake
#17. Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.
Paul Washer
#18. The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions
Gautama Buddha
#19. A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.
Pope Leo I
#20. To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.
Eric Hoffer
#21. We must be people who love to work; we must love righteousness and walk before the Lord and not be defiled or profaned by evil
Sunday Adelaja
#22. We live in an environment in which sexuality is often trivialized and defiled, stripped of its emotional depth and divorced from its sacred root.
William Keepin
#23. she was a rare, beautiful gift. And such a gift, came the ice-cold reminder from the core of his nature, would only end up crushed and bloody and defiled should he attempt to handle it.
Nalini Singh
#24. I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
Aldous Huxley
#25. The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.
Robert Southwell
#27. No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me.
Haruki Murakami
#28. not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated
The Biblescript
#29. Has anyone been corrupted or defiled?"
"Since the age of twelve," West said.
"I wasn't asking you, I was asking the girls."
"Not yet," Cassandra replied cheerfully.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. In truth, it is I who have defiled myself, for one is one s own fiercest enemy.
Ding Ling
#31. The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled.
Diogenes
#32. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Francis Bacon
#33. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.
Charles C. Ryrie
#34. The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.
Cyprian
#35. 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
#36. Even truth becomes just another weapon of division and violence, when shared with impure motives and a defiled heart.
Hope D. Blackwell
#38. The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.
Henry Villard
#39. God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
Jeremy Taylor
#40. Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.
Yukio Mishima
#41. A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
Olive Schreiner
#42. Let twelve angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld. And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was Nebro, which means in translation 'rebel'; others call him Yaldabaoth.
Rodolphe Kasser
#43. In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. Father, Please forgive me for anything that my eyes have seen that defiled me or offended you. Please forgive me for using my imagination for wrong purposes and make it clean now by the blood of Jesus. Cleanse me and heal me now and I thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen.
Michael Van Vlymen
#45. Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town
Returns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods, to fling him down.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#46. You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!
Anne McCaffrey
#47. This world inside which sentience has awoken, uninvited, is the stuff of all nightmares, a living daymare, a defiled experiment draped in ethical ugliness, and is it therefore any surprise that a child's first reaction upon discovering themselves alive inside it is to scream in absolute horror?
John Zande
#48. in truth man is polluted river. one must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. I like the idea of different
theres and elsewheres, an Idaho known for bluegrass,
a Bronx where people talk
like violets smell. Perhaps I am somewhere patient, somehow
kind, perhaps in the nook
of a cousin universe I've never defiled or betrayed
anyone.
Bob Hicok
#50. I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions ... Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
King James I
#51. The contemporary Matthew Paris wrote that, 'foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the foulness of King John'. A bard sang that 'no man may ever trust him, for his heart is soft and cowardly'. Yet this evil was catalyst for a greater good, Magna Carta.
Simon Jenkins
#52. 14Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. "All of you listen," he said, "and try to understand. 15It's not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart.*
Anonymous
#53. Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
John Milton
#54. How different conditions would be today in the Middle East, how much saner and safer the entire earth might be, had those Christians not defiled a civilization too advanced for their arrogant little minds to understand.
Tom Robbins
#55. She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.
Jasper Fforde
#56. The curse of men can't make me defiled.
I defile myself if I curse men by intention.
Toba Beta
#58. Her beauty ... The more she's defiled, the more it grows!
Naoyuki Ochiai
#59. It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.
Brad Pitt
#60. For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#61. When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.
Spencer W. Kimball
#62. Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.
Isidore Of Seville
#63. Morality is the position you hold on abortion before your teenaged daughter gets pregnant. after that everyone acts in their own self-interest.
Mike Nemeth