Sentences with phrase «demands purity of heart»

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if that true eternal claim that demands purity of heart, by willing one thing, were done away with, as if it had been withdrawn from government, set away in retirement at such a distance from daily life that there simply could be no talk about it.

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

Purity of heart is what God requires of him and the penitent demands it of himself before God.

But when all comparison is relinquished forever then a man confesses as an individual before God — and he is outside any comparison, just as the demand which purity of heart lays upon him is outside of comparison.

But now if the individual, yes, if you, my listener, and I must admit to ourselves that we were far from living in this way, far from that purity of heart which truthfully wills but one thing; must admit to ourselves that the questions demanded an answer, and yet in another sense, in order to avoid any deception, did not require an answer, in that they were, if anything, charges against ourselves which in spite of the form of the question changed themselves into an accusation: then should the individual, and you, my listener, and I join together in saying, «Indeed our life is like that of most others»?