59 Inspiring Purity Quotes

In a world filled with complexities and distractions, the concept of purity offers a refreshing solace that many yearn for. Purity encompasses not just the physical realm, but extends to our thoughts, intentions, and actions. It is a sincere pursuit of clarity, sincerity, and authenticity. Whether through spiritual beliefs, philosophical musings, or personal reflections, purity has inspired countless individuals to seek a higher path in life. In this collection, we delve into 59 inspiring purity quotes that capture the essence of this timeless virtue. Each quote invites you to reflect, embrace simplicity, and strive towards a life of true integrity and authenticity.

1. “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.” - Mae West

2. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” - Mahatma Gandhi

3. “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” - Mahatma Gandhi

4. “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)” - Anonymous

5. “Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.” - Anonymous

6. “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” - John Lubbock

7. “Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,While the white foam rises high,And sturdily wash, and rinse, and wring,And fasten the clothes to dry; Then out in the free fresh air they swing,Under the sunny sky.I wish we could wash from our hearts and our soulsThe stains of the week away,And let water and air by their magic makeOurselves as pure as they; Then on the earth there would be indeedA glorious washing-day!Along the path of a useful lifeWill heart's-ease ever bloom; The busy mind has no time to thinkOf sorrow, or care, or gloom; And anxious thoughts may be swept awayAs we busily wield a broom.I am glad a task to me is givenTo labor at day by day;For it brings me health, and strength, and hope,And I cheerfully learn to say-"Head, you may think; Heart, you may feel;But Hand, you shall work always!” - Louisa May Alcott

8. “The price of purity is purists.” - Calvin Trillin

9. “Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?” - Augustine of Hippo

10. “[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.” - Charles Baxter

11. “I am too pure for you or anyone.From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962” - Sylvia Plath

12. “The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.” - John Ruskin

13. “The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.” - Peter S. Beagle

14. “We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.” - Tiffany Madison

15. “Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!” - Honoré de Balzac

16. “There's lower wisdom in comment.” - Toba Beta

17. “And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.” - Charlotte Brontë

18. “I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.” - C. JoyBell C.

19. “‎If heart filled with purity,then mind found the beauty.” - Toba Beta

20. “It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.” - Luis Sepúlveda

21. “A pure belief can not be forced on human's heart.If it could, no need for terms such as 'I've told you'.” - Toba Beta

22. “The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.” - Matthew Henry

23. “The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.” - Angela Carter

24. “The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder. It seemed to him that he had stepped through a high window that looked on a vanished world. A light was upon it for which his language had no name. All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever. He saw no colour but those he knew, gold and white and blue and green, but they were fresh and poignant, as if he had at that moment first perceived them and made for them names new and wonderful. In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring. No blemish or sickness or deformity could be seen in anything that grew upon the earth. On the land of Lórien, there was no stain.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

25. “. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.” - Joseph Smith Jr.

26. “Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemos.” - Bernard Of Cluny

27. “When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!” - Dr. Tae Yun Kim

28. “He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was not worth losing his ability to touch a unicorn.” - Madeleine L'Engle

29. “The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.” - Criss Jami

30. “When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.” - Criss Jami

31. “The light of love, the purity of grace,The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!” - George Gordon Byron

32. “The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.” - Marina Warner

33. “I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.” - Elisabeth Elliot

34. “If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus' example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look.” - Greg Carey

35. “My passionate puritan!” - Violet Winspear

36. “Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.” - Thornton Wilder

37. “I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they’d been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. "You get what you pay for.” - Elisabeth Elliot

38. “The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.” - Saul Bellow

39. “Be sincere in your thoughts,Be pure in your feelings.You will not have to run after happiness.Happiness will run after you.” - Sri Chinmoy

40. “You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.” - Sri Chinmoy

41. “Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of - and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect.” - Sarah Mally

42. “Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play with white roses that belong to others.” - Sarah Mally

43. “One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

44. “The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is desirable. It is the confidence that He will come through with His promises and that what He promises is more to be desired than all the world.” - John Piper

45. “I bow to purityBut what is pure?Show me purityI bow to clarityBut what is clear?Show me clarity” - Rixa White

46. “When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.” - Criss Jami

47. “Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.” - Eric Liddell

48. “Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.[2000]” - Chavela Vargas

49. “No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it?” - G.K. Chesterton

50. “THE LIGHT THAT NOW REFLECTS FROM WITHIN YOU RADIATES PURITY AND HOLINESS, WHICH CAUSES US TO BECOME A LIGHT TO THE WORLD.” - Garey Gordon

51. “The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.” - Fulton J. Sheen

52. “There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a burning house or a young girl's arms.” - Johanna Moran

53. “I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.” - Louise Erdrich

54. “Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.” - Anne Brontë

55. “The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.” - Ross Douthat

56. “It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible, your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need. And do it in anyway you can, in your own way. It doesn't matter. That's why I say 'peaceful body, peaceful mind'. And then you'll be useful. You don't have to become a useful person. You will be useful.” - Swami Satchidananda

57. “I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You're reeling in ecstasy and dread. It's something you want, but can't ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow... and standing in front of you.” - H.M. Ward

58. “Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path seems long,true power seems weak,true purity seems tarnished,true steadfastness seems changeable,true clarity seems obscure,the greatest are seems unsophisticated,the greatest love seems indifferent,the greatest wisdom seems childish.The Tao is nowhere to be found.Yet it nourishes and completes all things.” - Lao Tzu

59. “Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.” - St. Francis de Sales