Quotes About Cleansing

Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels, I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite

In those late days of summer, as the right ruminated a cleansing, there flourished a millennial indulgence.

The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.

the categories of Jewish people excluded often at that time mirrored the profile of non-ethnic social and political cleansing elsewhere.

The scale of these "cleansing executions" – judicial murder after summary trials – alarmed even Himmler who was visiting in October 1940, though obviously he was concerned not with the humanitarian issue but the wastage of much-needed "Aryan" labour.

It also meant "cleansing" people who symbolized cultural change and thus posed a threat to old ways of being and thinking: progressive teachers, intellectuals, unionized and/or autodidact workers, "new" women.

This "cleansing" violence, or limpieza, claimed its most famous victim in the poet Federico García Lorca,

The Franco regime's imperative of "cleansing" repression borrowed heavily from an apocalyptic, manichean brand of Catholicism (harking back to the Counter-Reformation) with its dialectic of fire and sword, where the suffering of the "heretic", his or her "penitence" was a necessary part of the process.

extirp all errors, heresies, and other enormities and

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.

As a kid, when I was living in America, I started using those Noxzema wipes that just felt like you removed half your face. I quite like that tingly sensation.

I stopped using make up wipes, and it made my skin so much better. They messed up my skin big time.

We had killed them all without firing a shot. I prayed for the snow to fall and bury them for ever. When the snow falls you can almost believe the world is clean again. Is every snowflake different? No one knows.

Spring is about beginning again, and beginning again can be so much harder than staying in the winter of your life. What do you need to do this spring? What needs to begin again? What ground needs to be prepared? What needs to be planted? What needs to be swept away, because it's done? What new life is here? What will be different, this time?

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while.

When you have a lot of stress and negativity around you, when you cut that away, you cleanse.

I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I cleanse and moisturize, sometimes do face masks. I've also got a Clarisonic, which is good.

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.

The pore strips have always been a staple for me. I like products where you can really feel like it's working, and of course you can see all your blackheads getting ripped out.

The Deep Cleansing Pore Strips have been a staple product in my life for years. I don't pop blackheads. I don't touch my face. I like that this allows me to feel like I'm getting them out without grossing myself out.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.