Quotes with impurity

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• 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.

  ― Georges Bernanos
  French writer (1888 - 1948)
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• The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.

  ― Epictetus
  Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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• We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

  ― Jean Rostand
  French writer (1894 - 1977)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• supernatural
• purification
• obligations
• knowledge
• ourselves
• judgments

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