Quotes about Cleanliness

Ironically, our desire to clean ourselves actually minimizes the problem of uncleanness. It assumes we can give ourselves a good enough scrubbing to get a little holy before we meet the Holy One.

Observant Judeans would make a stop by the baths before morning prayers, as immersion was a component of spiritual cleanliness. For Jacob there was far more here than merely cleaning off the road's dust. He knew that the act of immersion was considered a symbol of change. Of elevating oneself from the earthly to the heavenly realms. Jacob wanted to mark all that had happened with such an act, and to complete the action with prayer.

The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

that you never be unfortunate or unhappy, but free, unrestricted and unrestrained; in sympathy with God's rule, which you submit to cheerfully; at odds with no one, no one's accuser; able in all sincerity to speak Cleanthes' line: 'Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny.

Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.

Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.

The one thing my mom taught me was to never go to bed without washing my face, and so I wash my face at least twice a day.

A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

God pours His oil into clean vessels!