{"quotes":[{"text":"The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform to the spirit and customs of the ungodly.","author":"Ellen G. White","tags":["be-separate","christianity","joy","pure-life","purity"],"id":1911,"author_id":"Ellen+G.+White"},{"text":"Roses are picked every day, they are told that they will be better off sold in the flower shoppe. And so they go from the hands of the picker; to the hands of the delivery man; to the hands of the florist; to the hands of the customer; and then often to the hands of the final recipient of the rose. From field, cut by scissors and passed from hand to hand. The world has forgotten that it is okay for roses to be in fields, the world has forgotten the beauty of the rose uncut. The bouquet is praised and given away but the wild roses are forgotten. People have forgotten what “wild” means; they think it means something entirely different. The wild rose remains untouched, with roots and swayed by the meadow winds. And that is wild. I am wild for having roots and for being untouched and for seeing things that people have forgotten. And I will always remember— that it is okay to be uncut, that it is okay to be untouched by darkness, it is okay to be wild.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["appreciating-innocence","freedom-to-be-safe","inspirational-living","inspirational","purity","the-freedom-of-safety","the-meaning-of-wild","the-value-of-purity","the-value-of-safety","true-wildness","uncut-roses","untouched","wild-roses","wisdom"],"id":2448,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"To break free from this vexatious and awful never-ending cycle, this flood of outrageous thoughts, and to long for nothing more than simply to sleep--how clean, how pure, the mere thought of it is exhilarating.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["awful","clean","cycle","exhilaration","free","freedom","never-ending","nothing","outrageous","pure","purity","sleep"],"id":2943,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["caring","caring-for-others","compassion","constructive-criticism","discernment","humility","hypocrisy","judgmental","love","pride","purity","self-destruction","self-righteousness","sin"],"id":5566,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","christ","evil","jesus","purity","sin"],"id":9330,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"When you enter the House of God, you leave your ego at the door and embrace purity as if your life depended on it.","author":"Sufian Chaudhary","tags":["ego","house-of-god","life","purity","spiritual-books","spirituality","sufian-chaudhary","world-of-archangels"],"id":10365,"author_id":"Sufian+Chaudhary"},{"text":"An Ignited Passion Plus Purity Is Required To Accomplish Purpose.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["passion","purity","purpose"],"id":12746,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["destruction","evil","free-of-evil","goodness","gossip","grace","holy","liar","purity","righteousness","sin","sinner","unholy"],"id":13193,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If you put a spoonful of saltin a cup of waterit tastes very salty.If you put a spoonful of saltin a lake of fresh waterthe taste is still pure and clear.Peace comes when our hearts areopen like the sky,vast as the ocean.","author":"Jack Kornfield","tags":["buddhism","peace","peace-of-mind","purity","sanctity-of-mind","serenity"],"id":13865,"author_id":"Jack+Kornfield"},{"text":"I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory 'making out' and 'sleeping around,' we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["christianity","purity"],"id":22319,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":192,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}