It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery and artifice, and the information we receive from books is pure from interest, fear, and ambition. Dead counsellors are likewise most instructive, because they are heard with patience and with reverence.
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn. . . for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together. . . this is the great paradox.
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.
Keep your analysis pure and virtuous.
Pure Christlike love flowing from true righteousness can change the world.
Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.
Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.
I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.
I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.
Sanctification makes us holy and destroys the breed of sin, the love of sin and carnality. It makes us pure and whiter than snow. Bless His holy name!
We must. . . maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel
If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?
I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message
If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.