Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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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.
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.