Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.
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The human body is the tabernacle of the spirit, and God expects that it be kept clean and unimpaired.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then not only blessed in our own souls, but also the work of our hands will prosper.
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord.
I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
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