Purifying Quotes

• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Thoughtful, Winning

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Love, Islamic, Knowledge

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• Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

  Amit Ray

  Mind, World, Firsts

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.98, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• 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

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

  Aeschylus

  Silence, Speech, Misery

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• 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

  Men, Cost, Waste

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• 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

  Spring, Adversity, Fire

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• 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

  Bible, Reading, Heart

  Billy Graham (2011). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.121, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Understanding, Action, Process

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator.

  Al-Jahiz

  Wisdom, Religious, Islamic

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• Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  God, Wisdom, Religious

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• Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sadness, Clouds, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 17, 2014

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• Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency to descend, and flows with great readiness. It is this the Holy Scripture has in view when it says, "And the darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Water, then, is the most beautiful element and rich in usefulness, and purifies from all filth, and not only from the filth of the body but from that of the soul, if it should have received the grace of the Spirit.

  John of Damascus

  Beautiful, Should Have, Four Elements

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• Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Elevating

  Mary Baker Eddy (1934). “Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

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• I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, Men, Optimism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Gratitude, Strong, Grateful

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• Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Prayer, Community, Baths

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Peter Frick (2010). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Meditation and Prayer”, p.17, Liturgical Press

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• 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

  Clouds, Heaven, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

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• There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Sound, Needs

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• 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

  Son, Hard Times, Fire

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• 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

  Culture, May, Moral

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.100, Bantam

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Two, Suffering

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