Blessed are they who have no
locks on their door.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Reflect, Resonate, Reevaluate, Respond
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
~ James Baldwin, from Nobody Knows My Name
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
~ G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, author, Christian apologist
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God’s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.
~ Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, Trappist monk, theologian
A pure heart won’t get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.
~ John Hagee, 1940- , pastor, televangelist
If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.
~ Tim Keller, 1950-2023, pastor, author
God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.
~ Augustine of Hippo, 354-430
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
~ John Chrysostom, died 407 AD, Golden-Mouthed
The so-called innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of heart.
~ Augustine of Hippo, philosopher, theologian