Cleanse Quotes
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Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Bible (Old Testament)— Psalms119:9.
For the cleansing of that horror, if cleanse it they could, I would welcome the English in suzerainty over Scotland till the end of time. I would welcome the end of Braid Scots and Gaelic, our culture, our history, our nationhood under the heels of a Chinese army of occupation if it could cleanse the Glasgow slums, give a surety of food and playthe elementary right of every human beingto those people of the abyss?
Lewis Grassic Gibbon— 1934 Scottish Scene,'Glasgow' (with Hugh MacDiarmid).
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
david— Psalms 51:1-3
Just as I am — Thou wilt receive, Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve; Because Thy promise I believe, O Lamb of God, I come! I come!
Charlotte Elliott— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 231.
I have sinned against you, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgetfulness, never to be remembered against me anymore.
George Kohn— Address to his congregation (21 February 1988), as quoted in The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal (2001) by George C. Kohn, p. 365
Christ will both judge and cleanse the entire earth at His return. He will not rule in a blemished, sin-stained earth. He will rule in righteousness on a renovated earth.
paul enns— p. 104 (Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011))
Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong , and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven 's bounty and glory of life and freedom .
khalil gibran— Khalil in Spirits Rebellious (1908) "Khalil The Heretic" Part 3
Those who wash their body and cleanse their garments whilst they remain dirty by bad actions and principles, are described by Solomon as "a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness; a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes!" &c. (Prov. xxx. 12-13). Consider well the principles which we mentioned... as the final causes of the Law; for there are many precepts, for which you will be unable to give a reason unless you possess a knowledge of these principles...
maimonides— Ch.33 (Part III)
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.
sallustius— XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
Wash me from mine enquiry, and cleanse me from my sin ; for I acknowledge my prevarications and my sin continually before Thee.
— Psalm li, 2.3, in Heavenly Arcana which are in the Sacred Scripture Or Word of the ..., Volume 11, p.31
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind this is the teaching of the Buddhas. (Verse 183)
— Translator: Acharya Buddharakkhita (Quotes)
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.
langston hughes— Noted African-American poet
The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.
— XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
God makes some people sin. He will not cleanse their hearts. They will have ignominy in this world, and in the Hereafter an awful doom.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 5:41
Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself inThee, Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, cleanse me from its guilt and power.
augustus montague toplady— 1776 Hymn.
O white and midnight sky, O starry bath, Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood: cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
richard watson gilder— The Celestial Passion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
— Psalms 51:1-3
O white and midnight sky, O starry bath, Wash me in thy pure, heavenly crystal flood: cleanse me, ye stars, from earthly soil and scath Let not one taint remain in spirit or blood!
— The Celestial Passion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
