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Quotes about Cleansing

I'd seen for myself how God's power was released after a time of cleansing, and I remembered that in every great historical move of the Spirit I had studied, every revival had experienced times of confession and deep repentance. I could see why, too. The cleansing season had set me free—the devil had none of my secret resentments and sins to hold over me anymore.
- Loren Cunningham
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
Affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.
- John Bunyan
subdue it at all.° Then you saw the damsel sprinkle the room with water, after which it was pleasingly cleansed. This is to show you the way in which the gospel comes into the heart with its sweet and precious influences. You saw the damsel clear the dust from the room by sprinkling the floor with water. This shows how sin is vanquished and subdued and the soul made clean through faith and consequently fit for the King of glory to inhabit.
- John Bunyan
let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Suffering ceases for him who is pure.
- James Allen
There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.
- Charles Spurgeon
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.
- William Osler
Purge. Prepare. Perfect.
- Terri Savelle Foy
But let us lay the axe to the very root of our life, that, being cleansed from affections, we may possess our souls in peace.
- Thomas a Kempis
How beautiful, how grand and perfect death was, how good to look forward to. There one would wash off all the lies and ignominy and dirt that had been put upon one here, a perfect bath of cleanness and glad refreshment, and go unknown, unquestioned, unabased. After all, one was rich, if only in the promise of perfect death. It was a gladness above all, that this remained to look forward to, the pure inhuman otherness of death.
- DH Lawrence