It is astonishing what force purity and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.
Basically fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Well purity - there's no purity in politics.
The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace love and understanding.
It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.
Throughout human history the apostles of purity those who have claimed to possess a total explanation have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Religion flourishes in greater purity without than with the aid of Government.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed as every past one has done in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
True human goodness in all its purity and freedom can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
I am a lover of truth a worshipper of freedom a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first I came to associate food not only with feminity but also with purity and divinity.
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.