Cleansing Body and Soul

Ἀλλ' ἀνιστάμενος και ὅψεν περικλύζεις και χεῖρας, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν περιορᾷς ἀκάθαρτον; Οὐκ οἴσθα, ὅτι καθάπερ ὕδατι σῶμα, οὕτω δι' εὐχῆς ἡ ψυχὴ καθαίρεται; Νίψον τοίνυν πρὸ τοῦ σώματος τὴν ψυχήν. Πολλαι λῆμαι προσίστανται αὐτῇ κακίας·  ταύτας ἀποθώμεθα διὰ τῆς δεήσεως. Ἄν γὰρ οὕτω τό στόμα τειχίσωμεν, καλὸν θεμέλιον τῆς καθημερινῆς  πράξεως καταβαλοῦμεν.  Ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος, Εἰς Τον Ε' Ψαλμον

But when you rise do you wash hands and face and overlook your unclean soul? Do you not know that as water is to the body, so it is that by prayer the soul is cleansed?  Wash, then, the soul before the body. Many stains of vice lurk there, which we should expel through prayer. For if we fortify the gate of the mouth, we shall have established our daily deeds on a fair foundation. Saint John Chrysostom, from the Exposition of the Psalms, Psalm 5