 They that would keep themselves pure must have their bodies in subjection, and that may require, in some cases, a holy violence. Author: Thomas Boston |
| You must keep your memory clean and pure, as it were a wedlock chamber, from all strange thoughts, fancies and imaginations, and it must be trimmed and adorned with holy meditations and virtues of Christ's holy crucified life and passion: That God may continually and ever rest therein. Author: Robert Leighton
Source: Rules and Instructions for a Holy Life. |
| The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace. Author: Philip Yancey |
| In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this. Author: Jim Bakker |
| I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail. Author: Winkie Pratney |
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| A person who is not being purified from sin has no claim on being saved from it. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Titus, p. 108. |
| Both the mind and the conscience can become so defiled that they cease making distinctions between what is pure and what is impure. Author: John MacArthur
Source: The Conscience, Revisited |
| O Lord, keep our hearts, keep our eyes, keep our feet, and keep our tongues. Author: William Tiptaft |
| He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful. Author: D.L. Moody |
| Become pure in heart. The pure in heart shall see God. Here, then, is one opening for soul-culture--the avenue through purity of heart to the spiritual seeing of God. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Degeneration, p. 119. |
| The man whose blood is pure has nothing to fear. So he whose spirit is purified and sweetened becomes proof against these germs of sin. "Anger, wrath, malice and railing" in such a soil can find no root. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Mortification, p. 192. |
