A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.
We are reflectors, and as reflectors we have one duty and that is to stay clean or we won't reflect Jesus.
If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there!
If your insides are not well looked-after, then your outsides are going to suffer. It's like a glass that's not cleaned from the inside. Whatever you do to polish it from the outside, it's still going to look dirty. So that's the analogy.
We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.
... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.
[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence
