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Quotes About Cleansing

No hay sensación mejor en el mundo que lavarse la cara en el agua fría una mañana en la montaña.
~ Jack Kerouac
One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate, , , The obliteration of memory.
~ Colum McCann
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
~ Thomas Merton
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
~ Antonin Artaud
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
~ Gautama Buddha
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
~ John Major
Intolerance that leads to violence is being bred with the steady rise of ethnic nationalism over the past decade and the replacing of history with fabricated stories of lost glory. Violence becomes in this perverted belief system a cleansing agent, a way to restore a lost world.
~ Chris Hedges
His heart was in the right place, he really did want to cleanse our people of their sins, it was just that no one would believe that God would give that responsibility to a thirteen-year-old.
~ Christopher Moore
all that New Age stuff reckons a shower cleanses your aura.
~ Val McDermid
He rose, took a slender silver water can with a long slim neck and staggered out. After a while he came back and put the can on the floor. We all rose to congratulate him, for his body had cleared itself of superfluous matter.
~ Kurban Said
You're—personally responsible for The entire strip to be washed away Cleansed, as if gallons of, um, rubbing alcohol Flowed through the strip and were set on fire It didn't just singe the hair, it made it straight And then Perry Ellis came along with his broom And his silk And he— He erected a beautiful city A city of stars
~ Kurt Cobain
If you wait long enough, all murders will have lost their scream, all bloodlines forgotten, all dynamite broken, all storms settled, all bones cleaned of the memory of sin.
~ Kwame Dawes
Wings of PURIFICATION
~ L.J. Smith
The energy was still flowing steadily, and Kait had a sense of cleansing. Her entire body felt light and airy, as if her feet weren't touching the ground.
~ L.J. Smith
After she had cried, she felt at once hollow and… better, as if the salt of all her unshed tears had been poisoning her, and now she was cleansed.
~ Laini Taylor
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it's absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. 'PLEASURE???? I said.' 'I don't understand the question.' I didn't do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.
~ Lance Armstrong
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
~ Langston Hughes
I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
She believed that each humble thing, if done worthily, might be touched by grace. I hoped it might be so, for it would require an abundance of grace to clean me of my sin.
~ Geraldine Brooks
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
~ Gilbert Morris
First John 1:9
~ Gilbert Morris
The order we seek begins with a thorough scouring of the inside of life.
~ Gordon MacDonald
Filthy water cannot be washed.
~ African Proverb