Quotes About Cleansed

#1. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

Charles C. Ryrie

#2. A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Hannah More

#3. The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

John Of The Cross

#4. When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

William Blake

#5. If the leprosy of sin have seized the head, if the judgment be corrupted, and wicked principles which countenance and support wicked practices, be embraced, it is an utter uncleanness, from which few are ever cleansed.

Matthew Henry

#6. Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

Elif Shafak

#7. We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

Max Lucado

#8. The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott

#9. The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.

Jayda Skidmore

#10. Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Horace Mann

#11. Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

Stephanie Perkins

#12. Until you've reached that point where you've perfected your lower nature and cleansed your emotional being, jnana yoga will have to wait.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods."
"Do you?"
"I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#14. [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

Billy Graham

#16. All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute de mieux, are tied up, marched away to the provincial capital, severely tortured, and all killed mala morte, 'a great number.'

Ramsay MacMullen

#17. Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Guru Nanak

#18. As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.

William Greider

#19. In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged.

Hugh Sidey

#20. Empty the mind of all concerns, see the stone as it is . . . cleansed of associations, wishes, dreams, fantasies, fears.

Anne McCaffrey

#21. As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.

Bill Johnson

#22. Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion. Psalm 19:13

Beth Moore

#23. Everything is cleansed and purified by the rains, and the Earth blossoms in beauty.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#24. He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

Anonymous

#25. For a moment, I lived in the center of the sun, warmed and cleansed, and the smell and sight of sickness fell away; the bitterness lifted from my heart. I

Diana Gabaldon

#26. The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#27. The greatest enemy to your mind is the devil,
the greatest friend knowledge.
Many a mind need to be swept,
many a heart need to be cleansed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Once a fear has been faced, whether the battle is won or lost, the soul becomes cleansed.

Dan Skinner

#29. St. Thomas Aquinas taught that water has been a natural sacrament since the dawn of creation. In the age of nature - from Adam through the patriarchs - water refreshed and cleansed humankind.

Scott Hahn

#30. The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

Sri Aurobindo

#31. In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

Jorge Luis Borges

#32. Confession is like really, really healthy vomit. It may smell and get all over the front of your shirt, but you feel better - you feel cleansed - when you're done.

Rob Bell

#33. If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

Saint Basil

#34. Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered ...

Thomas Merton

#35. He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Adam Clarke

#36. The Eiani cleansed, refreshed, and rejuvenated me. In order to heal, it first had to burn away the dead, consume the decay, then force new life where death had once resided

Julia J. Gibbs

#37. As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Robinson Jeffers

#38. The water cleansed his soul of the clutter and junk he had acquired through advice from those who were loud, but wrong. Many who had claimed to be wise had filled him, like so many others, with fear, hate, and judgement - all emotions that could not be carried be carried into Eternity.

Scott Thompson

#39. The 'flesh' is too bad to be cleansed; it must be crucified.

Watchman Nee

#40. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.

Ambrose

#42. And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal

Oscar Wilde

#43. Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

Pope Francis

#44. When he has cleansed away the most mysterious sights (of his imagination), he can become without a flaw.

Lao-Tzu

#45. Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the madness with which you should be cleansed

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Anne Lamott

#47. Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

Sandor Marai

#48. A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.

Gautama Buddha

#49. The God of this world has chosen to provide light to all mankind through His Son, who was crucified and died so that we could be cleansed and made free

Todd Coburn

#50. Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Bob Black

#51. Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language out of me so that I could come back with a cleansed mind, cleansed of the banalities of the same talk.

Pascal Mercier

#52. If someone is leaving you behind, and you are becoming jealous and embittered, keep praying that he may have success in the very matter where he is awakening your envy; and whether he is helped or not, one thing is sure, that your own soul will be cleansed and ennobled.

William Law

#53. The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.

Chief Seattle

#54. The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God.

Joseph Campbell

#55. Guilt is a spiritual pain in the soul that tells us something is evil and needs to be confronted and cleansed. To

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#56. British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Salman Rushdie

#57. She thought she had been saved by his love for her, and in part she had been. It had cleansed her, never casting blame. But that had been only the beginning. It was loving him in return that had brought her up out of the darkness.

Francine Rivers

#58. Sometimes you're taken into troubled waters not to drown but to be cleansed

Karen Salmansohn

#59. I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.

Joe Lando

#60. The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.

David Mamet

#61. When a defiled man is born again, his habits are changed, his thoughts cleansed, his attitudes regenerated and elevated, his activities put in total order, and everything about him that was dirty, degenerate or reprobate is washed and made clean.

Spencer W. Kimball

#62. Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#63. Each of us has an inner room where we can visit to be cleansed of fear-based thoughts and feelings. This room, the holy of holies, is a sanctuary of light.

Marianne Williamson

#64. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake

#65. To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

Dante Alighieri

#66. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (Mat 8:3). To one who had lain in the grave four days He cried, "Lazarus, come forth," and the dead came forth. The stormy wind and the angry waves were hushed at a single word from Him. A legion of demons could not resist His authoritative command.

Arthur W. Pink

#67. Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

Swami Vivekananda

#68. Only when the brain has cleansed itself of its conditioning, greed, envy, ambition, then only it can comprehend that which is complete. Love is this completeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#69. We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit.

John Fletcher

#70. In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Armstrong Williams

#71. 9 Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin"?

Anonymous

#72. Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

Jay Sekulow

#73. Kabir says, only they are pure who've completely cleansed their thinking.

Kabir

#74. When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The

Elizabeth Gilbert

#75. This is how God sees you when you turn to Him. When you accept the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, you are cleansed, purified. You become His beautiful princess. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart.

MaryLu Tyndall

#76. Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.

Ellen Hopkins

#77. What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if they will return to their Lord, learn of him, and keep his commandments

Spencer W. Kimball

#78. Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

Khalil Gibran

#79. That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.

Hanya Yanagihara

#80. In the sin department, she stood side-by-side with Eric, neither one better than the other. Both cleansed, forgiven, and redeemed by the precious blood of the Lamb.

JoAnn Durgin

#81. They stayed for rapt moments in the crystal sphere of this soul, as if in a realm of invisible radiation, listening to unearthly music, and then returned to their daily lives with hearts cleansed and strengthened, as if descending from a high mountain peak.

Hermann Hesse

#82. Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

Khalil Gibran

#83. Certain truths in life can only be seen with eyes cleansed by tears.

Pope Francis

#84. The Days Of Heaven The days of heaven are peaceful days, Still as yon glassy sea; So calm, so still in God, our days, As the days of heaven would be. The days of heaven are holy days, From sin forever free; So cleansed and kept our days, O Lord, As the days of heaven would be.

A.B. Simpson

#85. Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

Thomas A Kempis

#86. A pure heart faces the worst kind of evil in this world. But as it sleeps it's blessed, and it wakes up cleansed and a little bit stronger.

Gregor Collins

#87. The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt.
The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart.
The hand is the hand of God.
The nail is the nail of God.
And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.

Max Lucado

#88. Egyptian papyri mention temple attendants who cleansed patients and implemented regimes of diet and exercise.

Steve Parker

#89. Psalm 73:1: "Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart." Here the psalmist is speaking prophetically, distinguishing Israel as people whose hearts have been cleansed - which is possible only through the blood of Christ.

David Wilkerson

#90. If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through meditation, they will accumulate and eventually become very toxic.

Frederick Lenz

#91. You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth,
You have said my name as a prayer.
Here where trees are planted by water
I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret,
And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say.

Louise Bogan

#92. In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#93. When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.

Gautama Buddha

#94. HE TEN LEPERS: Handling ingratitude with disapproval-
And Jesus Answer, were there not 10 cleansed but where are 9?

Ikechukwu Joseph

#95. Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

Pope Francis

#96. If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ...
It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

Corrie Ten Boom

#97. Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

Sarojini Naidu

#98. We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.

Beth Moore

#99. The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.

Pope Paul VI

#100. If only someone else's flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning. If only ...

Ray Bradbury