Furnaces Quotes - Page 2

• Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it was a passion unscathed by disappointment.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Disappointment, Passion, Unlikely

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.11, A&C Black

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• There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spiritual, Two, Supposing That

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.6, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Beer, Broken

  Nora Roberts (2005). “Blue Smoke”, p.79, Penguin

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• The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  School, Odds, Long

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.443, A&C Black

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• I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Jobs, Guy, Tools

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• Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.

  Matthew Henry

  Gold

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.132

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• You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Jesus, Stars, Oxygen

  "A Universe From Nothing". Lawrence M. Krauss' speech at the Atheist Alliance International Convention at the Marriot Hotel Convention Center in Burbank, California, www.youtube.com. 2009.

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• Valerie was crying, too. She was laughing and sniffling back sobs. “I’m going to marry my snuggy wuggums,” she said. Morelli paused, his fork halfway to the roast chicken platter. He slid his eyes to me and leaned close. “If you ever call me snuggy wuggums in public I’ll lock you in the cellar and chain you to the furnace.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eye, Laughing, Locks

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Ten Big Ones: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.44, Macmillan

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• We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

  Jack Gilbert

  Acceptance, World, Ruthlessness

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf

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• Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room. We forgot her, trooped upstairs to church, and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes, persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more - Jem Finch said she wouldn't get burnt if she had enough faith, but it was hot down there.

  Harper Lee

  Sunday, Play, Class

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• I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* choice, as a shape of my world, as my best mirror, as the wife I've never had, as that which makes all the rest of it possible: as my power to live.

  Ayn Rand

  Love You, Pride, Expression

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2002, Penguin

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• The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Giving, Needs

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• The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

  Georg Buchner

  Hot, Fingers, Casts

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

  Ron Suskind

  Conviction, Rumble

  Ron Suskind (2010). “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League”, p.114, Broadway Books

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• Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

  Peter Shaffer

  Art, Goodness

  Peter Shaffer (1993). “Amadeus: A Drama”, Samuel French, Inc.

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• As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

  Adi Shankara

  Inspiration, Reality, Attachment

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• They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, War, Son

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.355, Best Books on

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• The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heaven, Crowns, Worn

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• Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Solitude, Our Society

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

  Brian Tracy

  Writing, Thinking, Goal

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 28, 2011

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• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

  Gary Snyder

  Life, Ocean, Creativity

  Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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• To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Parlor

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Rev”

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• Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Fire, Mold, Hammers

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