Refiner's Quotes

#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. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

James E. Faust

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Neva Coyle

#11. The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.

Charles De Lint

#12. We're really soaking every moment in. And, then, you know ... should the movie do as well as we all hope, we'll start thinking about a sequel to Deadpool.

Paul Wernick

#13. 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

#14. I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Brunello Cucinelli

#15. It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Fannie Flagg

#16. I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

Anthony Bourdain

#17. My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

Michael Jordan

#18. Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

Emlyn Chand

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

H.P. Lovecraft

#20. True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

#21. It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

Rita Rudner

#22. You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

Bill Maher

#23. First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Michael Chertoff