Purer Quotes

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine. - Plotinus

We should constantly strive to become purer. - Atharva Veda

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. - John Ruskin

To give a purer sense to the language of the tribe. - Stephane Mallarme

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities. - Dalai Lama

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? / And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? / They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. - Bible

There's a woman like a dew-drop, she's so purer than the purest. - Robert Browning

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. - Martin Chemnitz

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. - Joseph Smith, Jr.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. - Thornton Wilder