O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

—Saint Augustine

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

—Saint Augustine

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

—Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

—Saint Augustine

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

—Saint Augustine

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particular… but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive.

—Annie Dillard

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

—Tallulah Bankhead

There is no immaculate conception in art.

—Walter Kuhn

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

—Thomas à Kempis