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«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.»
«No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state»
Author: Felix Adler | About: Religion | Keywords: purity, subservient, vassal
«Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.»
«Purity of heart is to will one thing.»
«Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.»
Author: Thomas Kempis | About: Simplicity | Keywords: purity, simplicity, soars, temporary
«Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.»
«Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible»
«Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.»
«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.»
«Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.»

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