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How Forgiveness Helps Us Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again what is soiled is again made clean.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Sin is here the kind of purity that wants the world cleansed of the other rather than the heart cleansed of the evil that drives people out by calling those who are clean "unclean" and refusing to help make clean those who are unclean. Put
- Miroslav Volf
Paul is not simply invoking a "cultic metaphor" alongside a "law court" metaphor, on the one hand, and a "slave market" metaphor, on the other. He is thinking of the restoration of true cult, true worship: the one God cleansing people from defilement so that the true meeting, the heart of the covenant, may take place at last.
- NT Wright
How, then, can the Temple be cleansed so that humans, with the polluting smell of death upon them, can nevertheless come into God's Presence? The answer supplied by the levitical rituals is that the sacrificial blood is the sign of God-given life, a life more powerful than death, a life therefore that purifies both sanctuary and worshipper.
- NT Wright
once we enter into a relationship with Christ through His shed blood, we have been eternally cleansed. But we allow our lives to become soiled by this world or by our own natural choices, we need to return to be washed once more.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Sin can't be forgiven because it is not an act; you can only be forgiven for the sins you commit, not for a heredity. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins" (1 John 1:9); sin must be cleansed by the miracle of God's grace.
- Oswald Chambers
O Lord, my Lord, I come to Thee this morning with a sense of spiritual failure. Cleanse me by Thy grace and restore me to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O that the sweet kindness of Jesus were more and more manifest in me.
- Oswald Chambers
Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.
- Paul Hoffman
Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.
- Perry Stone
Then present Aaron and his sons at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
- Exodus 29:4
Cut the ram into pieces, wash the entrails and legs, and place them with its head and other pieces.
- Exodus 29:17
with which Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet.
- Exodus 30:19