Moral Purity Quotes

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

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.

Tony Kushner

#3. Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#4. The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.

Theodor Mommsen

#5. His moral purity serves to magnify our impurity.

Jerry Bridges

#6. In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.

Jessica Valenti

#7. Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

George Washington

#8. It is only as we see His holiness, His absolute purity and moral hatred of sin, that we will be gripped by the awfulness of sin against the Holy God. To be gripped by that fact is the first step in our pursuit of holiness.

Jerry Bridges

#9. So. Her husband-to-be was a philanderer. A smooth operator. A debaucher. A rake. A frisker. (Jane was something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.)

Cynthia Hand

#10. Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

John Ruskin

#11. I have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Umberto Eco

#13. The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity
the incredibly outgoing energy
of righteous rage.

June Jordan

#14. Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

E.L. Doctorow

#15. It aligns the cannibals with their real modern counterparts: those who eat "health" diets for self-improvement or worldly success or moral superiority or enhanced beauty or personal purity. Strangely, cannibals turn out to have a lot in common with vegans.

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

#16. Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Hosea Ballou

#17. He only is independently, infinitely, immutably holy. In Scripture He is frequently styled "The Holy One": He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. "God

Arthur W. Pink

#18. The moral strength of the Church depends upon purity of doctrine and not upon the mass of individuals.

Anonymous

#19. Aye," said Rob Anybody. "Gods, elementals, demons, spirits ... sometimes it's hard to tell 'em apart wi'oot a map.

Terry Pratchett

#20. I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like.

Dan Harmon

#21. Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Elaine Dundy

#22. We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness - the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Orson Scott Card

#23. You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

Warren Buffett

#24. For women especially, virginity has become the easy answer- the morality quick fix. You can be vapid, stupid, and unethical, but so long as you've never had sex, you're a "good" (i.e. "moral) girl and therefore worthy of praise.

Jessica Valenti

#25. Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.

Richard Rohr

#26. True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

#27. It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

Veronica Roth

#28. I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

Bobby Thomson

#29. To be holy is to live in a way that reflects the moral perfection of God; it is to live a life marked by love, purity, and righteousness, which are the three most important hallmarks of perfect behavior.

T. Desmond Alexander

#30. The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

John Strachan

#31. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Khaled Hosseini

#32. I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Kate Walsh

#33. The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching.

David Jeremiah