Sentences with phrase «by purity of heart»

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For he is in touch with the demand that calls for purity of heart by willing only one thing.

Thus, purity of heart is to will one thing, but to will one thing could not mean to will the world's pleasure and what belongs to it, even if a person only named one thing as his choice, since this one thing was one only by a deception.

Hence in the end it would seem as if that true eternal claim that demands purity of heart, by willing one thing, were done away with, as if it had been withdrawn from government, set away in retirement at such a distance from daily life that there simply could be no talk about it.

«The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals» Hazel Nicholson

Everything serves the point that love is the still heart of a chaotic world: the frosted purity of the colours, the stately pacing, the yearning score by Carter Burwell, the way that Ed Lachman's camera always drinks in a space before dialogue kicks in which in turn creates a graceful rhythm.