Spiritual Purification Quotes

Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

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.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Sanctification is not my idea of what I want God to do for me; sanctification is God’s idea of what He wants to do for me.

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

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet.

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.

That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified.

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

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.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

A holy habit clenseth not a foule soule.

Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.