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  • Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

    Sight   Hands   Clean  
  • The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.

    War   Hands   Two  
    George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

    Hands   Lord   Clean  
  • The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

    Struggle   Heart   Men  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 109), 1895.
  • Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

    Ocean   Blood   Hands  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61
  • Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

    Integrity   Sleep   Night  
    John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218
  • They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

    Self   Hands   Brave  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.365, e-artnow
  • We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better.

  • It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

    Hands   Law   Justice  
  • Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.

    Brother   Heart   Men  
    Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247
  • If any influential nation had the great spiritual strength to lay down its arms and appear with clean hands before the world, the world would be changed. I see no evidence that any influential nations has such great spiritual strength and courage. Therefore disarmament will be a slow process, motivated by the wish to survive.

    Spiritual   Hands   Wish  
    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.101, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

    "Wayne's lost world" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2007.
  • God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.

    Sweet   Hate   Men  
    Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.258, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

    Hands   Clean   Ability  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.55, Courier Corporation
  • Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

    President John F. Kennedy (2016). “A Nation Of Immigrants”, p.104, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • 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.

    Heart   Hands   Desire  
  • There are many out there who plead and pray for help. There are those who are discouraged, those who are beset by poor health and challenges of life which leave them in despair. I’ve always believed in the truth of the words, ‘God’s sweetest blessings always go by hands that serve him here below.’ Let us have ready hands, clean hands, and willing hands, that we may participate in providing what our Heavenly Father would have others receive from Him.

    Father   Blessing   Hands  
  • You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

    Morning   Character   Fog  
  • At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

    Jobs   Hands   Cleaning  
  • I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

    Heart   Hands   Wife  
    Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247
  • God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

    Change   Hands   Looks  
    "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 715, 1856.
  • Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

  • Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.

  • Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

  • Before pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.

  • Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer.

    Heart   Hands   Mountain  
    Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.384, Simon and Schuster
  • Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

    Hands   Tragedy   Clean  
    Edward Teller, Allen Brown, Jr. (1975). “The Legacy of Hiroshima”, Greenwood Press
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