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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.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere.

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.