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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.