Quotes About Purifying Fire

#1. Anyone can fall in love, but only those who love generously can feel the pain through love as 'purifying fire' ...

Emma Brynstein

#2. Lord Our God Your Grace is a purifying fire.

Anthony Doerr

#3. As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying terror. A feeble cry, a last impossible protest escaped him. But the Holy Ghost, emblazoned in ice instead of fire, continued, implacable, to descend.

Flannery O'Connor

#5. Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

Plato

#6. My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.

Daniel Nestor

#7. Success has its genesis at the fertilization of a properous thought process. (#A'Visual)

Tracey Bond

#8. Little one," Simon said after a prolonged silence, "why isn't it enough that I care for you and Elizabeth as
I've never cared for anyone else? Are you truly going to toss what we could have away for a world of
strangers that will never even appreciate your actions?

Trisha Baker

#9. The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Seneca The Younger

#10. The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Dean Koontz

#12. I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.

Rebecca Romijn

#13. Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

E. Nesbit

#14. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Horace Greeley

#15. If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

Ian Somerhalder

#16. At times there will be fire; this we can't avoid. But it's up to us to decide whether it will consume or it will purify.

Cristen Rodgers

#17. A brand is essentially a container for a customer's complete experience with the product or company.

Sergio Zyman

#18. A lot of friendship is about practice, that's something I've learned as I've gotten older. It's not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it's really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.

Ann Brashares

#19. A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Russell Baker

#20. What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Richard J. Daley

#21. No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain.

San Juan De La Cruz

#22. Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

Sophia Amoruso

#23. Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

William Warburton