Pastoral Resources

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.