I am now going to do a word study on the word "Pure" so i can better understand the meaning of Pure in heart.
(Words in this Font just mean my thoughts).
Webster's 1828 Dic:
PURE, a. [L. purus.]
1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. Pure wine is very scare.
2. Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy. (Fully Repented)
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil. Hab.1. Prov.20.
3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1.
4. Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.
5. Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.
No hand of strife is pure, but that which wins.
6. Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition. (Don't swear)
7. Disinterested; as pure benevolence.
8. Chaste; as a pure virgin.
9. Free from vice or moral turpitude. Tit.1.
10. Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6.
11. Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure. (I like the term 'Free', because if you are truly pure, then you are happy and you can feel Free.)
12. Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain. He did that from pure compassion, or pure good nature.
PURE, v.t. To purify; to cleanse.
Scriptures:
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22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
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22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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11 And if ye do this with a pure heart, in all faithfulness, ye shall be blessed; you shall be blessed in your flocks, and in your herds, and in your fields, and in your houses, and in your families.
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22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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19 I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heartand clean hands? I say unto you, can you look up, having the image of God engraven upon your countenances?
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5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
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4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. (Again, don't swear, if you want to be pure in language)
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18 They that remain, and are pure in heart, shall return, and come to their inheritances, they and their children, with songs of everlasting joy, to build up the waste places of Zion— (And again, Joy, joy happiness and freedom come when you are pure)
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8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. (Who's not more pure than God? And who shouldn't be in His presence if they're Pure?)
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2 O all ye that are pure in heart, lift up your heads and receive the pleasing word of God, and feast upon his love; for ye may, if your minds are firm, forever.
(Wow! All those scriptures were so good! I want to work on being more Pure in heart!)
Quotes:
O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. ~T.S. Eliot
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy
follows like a shadow that never leaves. ~Buddah
( O My Gosh! I loved this quote! It is so wise!)
(Reading the scriptures is a very pure intent.)
My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.~Martin Luther King Jr.
My Personal Definition:
Pure in heart to me means to have good thoughts and good intents in our actions. And to be trying to improve every day, that is a like The Pure intent. That is what repentance is, and when we repent we become Pure. We become white in Him. Because Jesus Christ died and atoned and rose again for us, we can repent and be doing our Best everyday, and try to improve everyday, and we can be Pure! Its a wonderful plan. Its the Plan Of Happiness! If we are Pure, We are happy. And Its the true Kind of happiness. Not the fake kind. We get that joy when we think of improving everyday and keep taking advantage of the Atonement in our continuing journey of this life. :)
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