"Spiritual purity" refers to having a clean and virtuous inner state or soul, free from negative thoughts, intentions, or actions. It involves being morally upright and connected to one's deeper spiritual beliefs or higher power.
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Priests wore special garb, maintained
high spiritual purity — inside the Temple and, through restrictions on (for instance) marriage partners, outside it as well — and could be executed for certain infractions.
It could be that as the first Christians moved out with their message into the Greek world, the popular hellenistic idea that sexual abstinence was the most important sign of
spiritual purity made it necessary to portray Jesus — even as early as the Gospels — as a virgin, or at least to ignore his marriage or love affairs.
Then, during the Crusades, there is the widespread slaughter of the Albegensians, who held to a dualistic rejection of all things material in order to
achieve spiritual purity, and John Calvin who burned Servetus at the stake for denying the Trinity, and Zwingli who had several Anabaptists drowned for their belief in getting rebaptized as adults.
My tendency for physical and
spiritual purity was challenged the most when I volunteered at an orphanage in Thailand.
Explanation: Muslims perform a thorough ablution (washing) before each prayer to attain a state of physical and
spiritual purity.
Spiritual purity is important, but so is a sense of humor, the ability to listen and basic generosity.
Never quite shakes itself free of the tired cliche that street people are quirky, sometimes cute, and somehow privy to
a spiritual purity lost to us social folk.
The film uses its setting as lazy shorthand: for the nostalgia of lost childhood, the virtues of independence, and
the spiritual purity of acoustic rock.
Once the fad for guides got underway, American Indians were much in evidence, presumably chosen for
their spiritual purity.
Constantine heads off to India in search of
spiritual purity (OMG, LOL) in order to fix some of the crap that happened last book.