Washing Away Quotes

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  Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Trust, Spiritual

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• Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  Eileen Caddy

  Empty Vessels, Tears, Flow

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• I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

  Amy Tan

  Love, Pain, Years

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.67, Penguin

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• Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Blood, World, Sin

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• Forgiveness involves pardon. Basically, that is like erasing their offenses toward us from a marking board. We immediately wash their offenses away like a wave washing away a message in the sand. Second, forgiveness involves caring for the offending person because most people who offend us have something in their own heart that needs healing. When we forgive others, they are released from our anger and we are healed by God.

  Gary Smalley

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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• When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Tattoo, New York, Stars

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• My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

  Iain Banks

  Hate, Stupid, Men

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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