Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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?
If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.
Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.
My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.
Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.
We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.
We cannot be unclean and expect the help of the Almighty.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Islam emphasized the internal purity of man that is achieved through the purity of the mind in realizing the Right and the purity of feelings through having the pure intention towards man, far away from the meanness of malevolence and hatred and through the purity of the movement that is not lunched except for the sake of justice, Good and life.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.
