Popular “tradwife” blogger the Thinking Housewife goes so far as to call that so-called provocative female attire a form of “aggression” against men, praising one reader who writes, “Immodest dress is analogous to male violence,” and others who describe such clothing choices as “a form of sexual har…
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Quotes tagged ‘Purity’
Purity—it's what we all desire, and it is what I've come here to share with you. Hence the all whites.
We are all full of sin. No pure human being exists. But no matter what we do, we never fall any lower than into God's hands.
For if a woman have an innocent, unsuspecting soul as delicate as the curled cup of a Nile lily, the more easily will it droop and wither in the heated grasp of a careless, cruel hand.
Nothing truly wild is unclean.
This is very American: to require those who are suffering in some way to be morally pure, and then to be only eligible for assistance from others if we fit that narrow definition of purity.
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good We'll do the best we know. We'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow. And make our garden grow!
We should look at how men are desiring inexperienced partners so that their sexual ability is never scrutinized for its lack of pleasure.
When seen as a whole, art derives from a person’s desire to communicate himself to another. I do not believe in an art which is not forced into existence by a human being’s desire to open his heart. All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart’s blood. Art is your heart’s blood.
Catholicism and other Christian religions are yet another weapon against indigeneity by the European colonizers, and that the myth of purity is bullshit. Women do not belong to men nor to god.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, for the businessman was well as the man of letters, for example, a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair wh…
We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impu…
If you consider a woman less pure after you've touched her, maybe you should take a look at your hands.
I am too pure for you or anyone.
How can a mortal body achieve such beauty and such purity?
Your purity is not based on what you've done with your body. It's based on what Jesus did with His.
You can purify your body through fasting and abstinence, but only love will purify your heart.
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.