moral cleansing Quotes

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir.

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.

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

A little water clears us of this deed.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.