Quotes About Refiner

#1. In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

James E. Faust

#2. The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#4. If a bad habit is a learned behavior, then what we've learned needs to be burned in/thru the Refiner's Fire! el

Evinda Lepins

#5. What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.

Oliver DeMille

#6. God is a refiner, not an arsonist.

Neva Coyle

#7. Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner's furnace to the gold.

J.C. Ryle

#8. It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at set times. The like may be said of society, which, if good, is a better refiner of the spirits than ordinary books.

Frances Osborne

#9. Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

James E. Faust

#10. There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.

Richard C. Edgley

#11. If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Matthew Simpson

#12. People interested in museums as real educational environments, parents interested in their children's education, and people seeking to find themselves in a positive way could all benefit from reading this book. by Associate Dean Engineering, Michigan State University

Ronald Rosenberg

#13. Half one thing and half another," Tessa said. "Like me. But you know you're human." Jem's expression softened. "As are you. In all the ways that matter.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Or I would walk through Queen's Park, quickly and with purpose. If too slowly, a man was bound to appear.

Margaret Atwood

#15. As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,
all of his works are zero.
When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead,
then the work of the Teacher is over.

Kabir

#16. The average movie-goer in this country sees six films in a year. That's one every two months. What the studios are trying to do is make sure it's their movie.

Anita Elberse

#17. Long deep lines,
chapters carved
in his face by age,
question marks,
mysterious tales,
asterisks,
all that the sirens had forgot
in the far-reaching
solitude of his soul,
all that fell from the
starry sky,
was traced in his
face.

Pablo Neruda

#18. Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Aaron Hill

#19. Be prepared for a bit of a stinker! My little lambs always start bleating when told they're not going to Heaven.

E.A.A. Wilson

#20. Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

William Cranch Bond

#21. The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Vinoba Bhave