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“As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.”
John Wesley“It's not the beauty of a person you should admire. It is the purity of heart that deserves your admiration.”
Karon Waddell“Purity of heart is what enables us to see.”
Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth“Maintain purity of heart.Trust in the process.Hold steadfast to your belief of self.Never loose sight of your smile.”
Truth Devour, Wantin“Innocence is defined in dictionaries as freedom from guilt or sin, especially from lack of knowledge; purity of heart; blamelessness; guilelessness; simplicity, etc.”
William Maxwell“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.”
Albert Nolan, Jesus Today: A Spirituality of Radical Freedom“No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession“The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession“On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, "lust" limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female.”
John Paul II, Purity of Heart: Reflections on Love and Lust / Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body in Simple Language, Vol. 2