Purer Quotes

#1. For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.

John Steinbeck

#2. How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do.

June Carter Cash

#3. By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

Jonathan Lethem

#4. Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

Elie Wiesel

#5. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

J.G. Holland

#6. Go to the poets, they will speak to thee
More perfectly of purer creatures

William Wordsworth

#7. I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.

Blake Butler

#8. There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#9. The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Francis Bacon

#10. Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

Martin Chemnitz

#12. And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

Kahlil Gibran

#13. Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.

Jerry Saltz

#14. As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.

Washington Irving

#15. The training of children is such a serous thing, and it means so much to them to be surrounded from the very beginning with good influences, that I should have thought the holier a man's vocation and the purer his life, the more fit he is to be a father

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#16. There are certain levels of sadness that introduce you to parts of yourself you never knew existed, and it's always a much purer version of you that couldn't be any you-er than you. You fall in love with it and forget to move on.

Ibraheem Hamdi

#17. I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.

Hinton Rowan Helper

#18. The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.

Jean Racine

#19. [C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character.

Harry Shearer

#20. It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love.

David Rakoff

#21. Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. Christians have made too much out of work in the same way that Americans have begun engaging in yoga competitions - twisted-up versions of a purer thing. Christians want to make a difference. So we do, and we do, and we do, and then we find ourselves exhausted. In

Shauna Niequist

#23. Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

Plotinus

#24. Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#25. say: maybe not in these words; maybe not in words at all, but in the purer language of thought; but yes, certainly, this is what was at the bottom of it all; because children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison, and it was the poison of grown-ups which did for us.

Salman Rushdie

#26. Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates who reigned in the capital of the East was rejected in the purer schools of Rome and Alexandria.

Edward Gibbon

#27. O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.

Ephrem The Syrian

#28. I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

Johannes Brahms

#29. Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

Paulo Coelho

#30. If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

Euripides

#31. I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Wilfred Owen

#32. We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

William McDonough

#33. I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

William Jones

#34. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Aleister Crowley

#35. I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

Ben Mendelsohn

#36. If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency; a faith warmer than that of reasoning; a love purer than that of the self; he has been slow to express it; still slower to urge it.

Henry Adams

#37. Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

Jude Morgan

#38. Werewolves are the guardians of humanity, and their form should be purer while exorcised. They'll be assets in the last battle.

S.M. Reine

#39. Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Gabriela Mistral

#40. I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

Charlotte Bronte

#41. Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

Ameen Rihani

#42. And in that history you're trying to connect to something that once was yours - to something purer, better, something that you lost or something, maybe, that you never knew but that you feel you knew.

Sebastian Faulks

#43. Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise

John Greenleaf Whittier

#44. A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.

Jean Paul

#46. "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

Frederick Lenz

#47. It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

Ketch Secor

#48. There was no higher art than music and no purer musical form than song.

Vivien Shotwell

#49. Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself.

Fridtjof Nansen

#50. The irony is that there is nothing purer than sorrow.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#51. People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.

Tony Benn

#52. Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.

Athenaeus

#53. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

Lauryn Hill

#54. Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

Stephen Charnock

#55. The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret.

Elie Wiesel

#56. The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be,
Help me to tear it from thy throne,
And worship only thee.
So shall my walk be close with God,
Calm and serene my frame;
So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

William Cowper

#57. Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.

Lauryn Hill

#58. Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

James Sheridan Knowles

#59. There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

Stephen Graham Jones

#60. I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

Elisabeth Of Wied

#61. In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws.

Charles Kingsley

#62. Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

A.W. Tozer

#63. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder

#64. A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.

Mahatma Gandhi

#65. The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.

Piet Mondrian

#66. As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Marianne Williamson

#67. Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that makes mercy a lesser thing than grace.

Marilynne Robinson

#68. Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

#69. The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#70. Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.

Prentice Mulford

#71. Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

Frederick William Robertson

#72. A traveler, the purer form, someone who collects impressions, dense anatomies of feeling but does not care to record them.

Don DeLillo

#73. The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were.

Rosamund Hodge

#74. The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

Germain-Francois Poullain De Saint-Foix

#75. Turren blinked and then smiled from ear to ear. "What makes a pure soul extra purer?"

"I don't know," Sebastian said. "I didn't eat anything weird today.

Sam Argent

#76. How could I have missed the opportunity to pop pills with my sister who was purer than a Quaker?

Chelsea Handler

#77. Plus, if you think carefully, when you fall in love with someone not for her lookay, don't you think it's purer? It would last longer as physical aged but personality grows

Evelyn Rose

#78. Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

Mahatma Gandhi

#79. The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#80. Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#81. The heart is the eye of the human being. The purer it is, the quicker, farther, and clearer it can see.

John Of Kronstadt

#82. My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#83. Lovely eyes in colour, lovely eyes in form - large and tender and quietly thoughtful - but beautiful above all things in the clear truthfulness of look that dwells in their inmost depths, and shines through all their changes of expression with the light of a purer and a better world.

Wilkie Collins

#84. In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."
"Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"
"What a pity!" said Randall.

Georgette Heyer

#85. The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

Orison Swett Marden

#86. There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite ... a play of Shakespeare's.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#87. Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

Soman Chainani

#88. No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#89. For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.

Renee Fleming

#90. I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic.

Nick Offerman

#91. Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.

Francis Bacon

#92. While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest.

William Wordsworth

#93. Though thou loved her as thyself,
As a self of purer clay,
Tho' her parting dims the day,
Stealing grace from all alive,
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#94. Loving others sometimes requires a love far greater and purer than our own. - Dawn Lilly

Gary Chapman

#95. Purer colors ... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

Henri Matisse

#96. As for myself, I have found my perfect pattern in Jesus, who said, "The Father has not left Me
alone, for I always do those things that please Him." I am no longer motivated by personal ambition.
I have discovered a sweeter, purer motive: simply to please my Father.

Derek Prince

#97. The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Eugene Delacroix

#98. The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run and hide, to deny, to pretend I did not know who I was and what the world would do to me.

Dorothy Allison

#99. The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

James Cook

#100. We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.

Katy Lederer