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Quotes About Purifies

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
~ Paul Simon
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.
~ Isidore of Seville
Myth does not deny thing, on the contrary, its function is to talk about them; simply, it purifies them, it makes them innocent, it gives them a natural and eternal justification, it gives them a clarity which is not that of an explanation but of a statement of fact.
~ Roland Barthes
Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Hard farewell, With no greeting to come. Sad farewell, When love is torn away. Long farewell, Till Death dies. "But the lost one is with you. Her tenderness strengthens you, Her gaiety uplifts you, Her honor purifies you. More than memory, The lost one is found.
~ Gail Carson Levine
True healing is not physical — it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.
~ Judith Cornell
Love brightens and purifies the heart.
~ Karen Cushman, Matilda Bone
In my country, and in my time, learning improves fortunes enough, but not minds; if it meet with those that are dull and heavy, it overcharges and suffocates them, leaving them a crude and undigested mass; if airy and fine, it purifies, clarifies, and subtilizes them, even to exinanition.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Love brightens and purifies the heart.
~ Karen Cushman
In solitude let there be squandering of abundance. For community is the depth, while solitude is the height. The true order in community purifies and preserves. The true order in solitude purifies and increases. Community gives us warmth, while solitude gives us the light.
~ C.G. Jung
He carries in his eyes a pearl; from the ends of days and from the winds he takes a spark; and from his hand, from the islands of rain a mountain, and creates dawn. I know him—he carries in his eyes the prophecy of the seas. He named me history and the poem that purifies a place. I know him—he named me flood.
~ Khaled Mattawa
The wisdom of God is seen in making the most desperate evils turn to the good of his children. As several poisonable ingredients, wisely tempered by the skill of the artist, make a sovereign medicine, so God makes the most deadly afflictions co-operate for the good of his children. He purifies them, and prepares them for heaven. 2 Cor 4: I7. These hard frosts hasten the spring flowers of glory.
~ Thomas Watson
So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.
~ Will Durant
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
~ Rumi
Friendly love promotes friendships, but godly love purifies and protects friendships.
~ John Arthur
Love is the Fire of Life; it either consumes or purifies
~ Swedish Proverb
Love is the oxygen of the spirit. It allows us to breathe. And it purifies, energizes and uplifts all that it touches.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Hate is the key. Hate is the driver. Hate is the fire that purifies the soldier. The soldier must hate .
~ Patrick Ness