But fornication and impurity of any kind, or greed, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints. Entirely out ...of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound to ...be dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of ...our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it--the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most ...enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, &c. prove it abundantly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knaves and fools have done you impious wrong,... Venus, for venery stands for impurity and Venus as desire is venereous, lascivious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Piety practised in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight... those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendour of beneficence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their... job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,... and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »