The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.
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.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
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.
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
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.
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.
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.
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.