#purify

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Washington Irving

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Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. ↗

— Jean Paul

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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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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 is of a different nature altogether. It does not hate tragedy. It never denies reality. It stands in the very teeth of suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. The cross was the proof of His love – that He gave that Son, that He let Him go to Calvary’s cross, though “legions of angels” might have rescued Him. 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

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Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls. ↗

— Allen R. Hunt

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The light of love is the brightest, because it shines into those who contact it and purify their soul. It is also dangerous in the fact that when you come into contact with it just once, you can't truly live life if it is to leave. ↗

— Shannan Jacoby

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

— Aeschylus

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