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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. -- Aeschylus
Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again. -- David A. Bednar
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them. -- Garrett Hardin
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. -- Marvin Harris
Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind. -- Mineko Iwasaki
Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. -- Amit Ray
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise. -- Billy Graham
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart. -- Agnes Repplier
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there. -- Swami Vivekananda
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes. -- Tae Yun Kim
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
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us. -- A. Theodore Tuttle
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. -- Alexander MacLaren
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a strengthening and purifying experience combined with faith, or it can be a destructive force in our lives if we do not have the faith in the Lord's atoning sacrifice. The purpose of suffering, however, is to build and strengthen us. -- Robert D. Hales
It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections. -- John Wesley
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did not protect His own Son.... He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter. Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. -- Stanley B. Prusiner
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. -- Brennan Manning
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True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring. -- Elizabeth George
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. -- Dorothy Parker
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. -- Amit Ray
Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work. -- Eyvind Kang
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. -- Quentin Crisp
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. -- Hosea Ballou
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act. -- Rita Mae Brown
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
It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will. -- Howard G. Hendricks
The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed. -- Umberto Eco
In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue. -- Albert Camus
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity. -- George Eliot
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there. -- Swami Vivekananda
It seems the whole works of humankind are backwards. Most are trying to convince, instruct, and purify everyone else - without first purifying themselves. To enlighten others we have to enlighten ourselves. -- David Wolfe
Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go. -- Sharon Gannon

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