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Quotes About Cleanness

You could look at the work of any Dutch master for an idea of the morning light we cycle through. There is a white cleanness to it, a rinsed quality. It's a sober light, without, for example, any of the orange particulate glow you get from the Mediterranean sun.
~ Russell Shorto
Where Brooke was embracing cleanness and nobleness, Mann saw a more positive goal. Germans being, he said, the most educated, law-abiding, peace-loving of all peoples, deserved to be the most powerful, to dominate, to establish a "German peace" out of "what is being called with every possible justification the German war.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
re: Matthew 8) "[Jesus'] almost refusal to allow the complications of men to interfere with the loving work of God." [for the leper} "...this is not a media event, it is a personal experience...he is in effect, to minimize the wonder by returning to the ordinary rituals." "One wonders still at the cleanness of the incident...God's spirit hovers now as it always has over simpler scenes; He is found directly more often in truthful human exchanges than in convoluted efforts to escape humanity.
~ Eugene Kennedy
I was born fussy, liked cleanness and orderliness about me and had already been thrown too much into the midst of shiftlessness. The socialists and communists I had seen and heard talk nearly all struck me as men who had no sense of life at all.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Eguchi, now sixty-seven, had lost many friends and relations, but the memory of the girl was still young. Reduced now to three details, the baby's white cap and the cleanness of the secret place and the blood on the breast, it was still clear and fresh.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
There are great advantages of making things on the independent market. There's freedom and control there, and kind of a cleanness to the process that I like.
~ Jeff Nichols
Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness, than this, that the blessed Spirit, who hath undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoiceth when his temple is kept undefiled.
~ John Owen
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
~ 2 Samuel 22:21
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
~ 2 Samuel 22:25
He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”
~ Job 22:30
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
~ Psalm 18:20
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
~ Psalm 18:24
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
~ Amos 4:6