“You are not to seek your own selfish ends, or the aggrandizement of a party, but to promote the general good, and the interests of truth, righteousness, peace, and purity.”
Respect every person, but respect every child one hundred times more, and take care not to harm the chaste purity of their souls.
—Leo Tolstoy
Respect every person, but respect every child a hundred times more and take care not to damage the chaste purity of his soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Longed exceedingly for angelic holiness and purity, and to have all my thoughts, at all times, employed in divine and heavenly things.
—David Brainerd
If we are not more concerned for the purity of the Church than with the fact that we are faced by the possibility of another war, that is a serious reflection upon our Christianity.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Evil people do not look into children’s eyes for fear of being poisoned by their purity.
—Taras Shevchenko
Purity of religion in the church cannot stand long with slavery admitted in the state.
—Jeremiah Burroughs