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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
You
Emotions
Pure
Side
Only
Emotion
Lift
Up
Impure
Being
Which
Your
Gather
I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God
Son
Mind
Ungrateful
Think
Savior
Would
Tried
Atonement
Only
Marvel
Finite
Imperfect
Perfectly
Come
Understand
Up
Often
Impure
Loves
Explanation
Us
Deeply
Save
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot
Me
Man
Heart
Wicked
Desperately
All Things
Above
Excellent
Deliver
Lord
Deceitful
Intention
Impure
Things
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine
Spiritual
Light
Virtue
Sacrament
Like
Although
Passes
Impure
Polluted
Among
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
David Friedman
Success
Music
Writing
Value
Music Industry
Would
About
Like
Industry
Becomes
Making
Impure
While
Realized
Large
Start
Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated.
Isaac of Nineveh
Thoughts
You
Wise
Overcome
Confusion
Mind
Will
Become
Way
Out
Seductive
Examining
Thrown
Like
Look
Test
Been
Infatuated
Impure
Them
Your
Grounds
Even
Imagining
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
Jasper Johns
Sometimes
Other
Neither
See
Both
Times
Situations
Impure
Prefer
Then
Paint
I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.
Jennette McCurdy
You
Entertainment
Somewhere
Become
Down
Starts
Way
No-One
Feel
Longer
Along
Like
Sure
Lines
Up
Intention
Impure
Blurred
Which
Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek model is not some lost idea of philosophy's pure essence, but the idea that philosophy is mixed up with everything else.
Julian Baggini
Pure
Lost
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Philosophy
Ancient
Some
Recovered
Idea
Most
Mixed
Up
Greek
Model
Essence
Impure
Being
Engaged
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
Patanjali
Failure
Ignorance
Suffering
Pure
Self
Between
Bliss
Permanent
Discriminate
Impure
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas
Today
Politics
Free
Free Speech
Yesterday
Performance
Like
Audience
Cattle
Diseased
Same
May
Impure
Even
Applaud
Butter
Speech