The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.
Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious.
To a pure heart all hearts are pure.
Temple going is for the purification of the soul.
A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied.
Confession of one’s guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.
It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.
Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity.
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.
Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
Tulsidas’s Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.
I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.
I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.
Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.
Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.
All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.