Refining Fire Quotes

#1. Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross
a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Roy L. Smith

#3. People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.

Heidi Klum

#4. The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Beyonce Knowles

#5. As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Erica Jong

#6. We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.

Christine Caine

#7. One is born to be a great dancer.

George Balanchine

#8. I do not ever want to be a huge star.

Tuesday Weld

#9. How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Neal A. Maxwell

#10. Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.

Melvin Van Peebles

#11. Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.

Joel Robuchon

#12. Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

Joni Rodgers

#13. If that's what joy is - connection - then to fully experience it requires something terrifying as well as exalting: opening oneself up to the possibility of loss.

Jennifer Senior