Soul Cleansing Quotes

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive...no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed of it. But now, here, in order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it.' She touched his hand. 'You need to forgive your father.' ~pgs 141-142

Sometimes I feel like I'm possessed with a multitude of demons.

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

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.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

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

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

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

{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.

You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

Swimming always cleans your soul

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'