Quotes About Purification

Deeper, much deeper, the fire purifies. It is the wilderness fire to which no one descends. An exile, forbidden to souls, forbidden to shadows. Bowels that burn with an unholy solitude.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything." Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

A soul can finally fly free as a bird only after its energy is lighter and has been purified.

There is a polish for everything that taketh away rust; and the polish of the heart is the invocation of Allâh. – Hadith of the Prophet

Like ether, let us remain undivided and not become narrow and unyielding. Like the earth, let us help and share the burden of all. Like the water, let us flow untethered and quench the deepest thirst. Like fire, let us eliminate the unnecessary and unimportant. Like air, let us silently become a lifeline for all.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Now there's a specific banality to rage as a reaction, an unearned sense of cleansing virtue.

Fasting is a shield with which a servant protects himself from the fire.

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

The physician of the soul is aware that his patient will receive no nourishment unless he has been cleaned out; and the soul of the Great King himself, if he has not undergone this purification, is unclean and impure.

I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable.

Consumed or purified by fire.

Someone, he thought rather crossly, ought to see him and tell him just what the sentence was, until he should have suffered enough to be purified, and at last to enter the Kingdom of God. Whether he was expecting a demon or an angel was uncertain. He had no idea of the staffing requirements of Purgatory; it wasn't a matter the dominie had addressed in his schooldays.

The wilderness is a dry place. It may be dry spiritually, financially, socially, or physically. It is here that God gives "daily bread," not "abundance of things." He meets our needs in this time — not necessarily our wants. The purpose of the wilderness — to purify us. Our pursuit is to be His heart, not His provision

Não é que não existem pessoas que podem falar dos princípios verdadeiros da Palavra. A verdadeira questão é: será que existem homens e mulheres que se separarão e se humilharão para que o processo de purificação de Deus aconteça, para que ouçam perfeitamente o coração de Deus, a fim de proclamá-Lo?

affliction is better than sin, and if God sends the one to cleanse us from the other, let us thank him, and be also content to pay the messenger.

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. So that we can see more and more clearly what we are. In that way, we can give to those who listen the essence, the best of what we are. But to do that at each stage, we have to keep on cleaning the mirror.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

This makes me feel ritually unclean.

o?istený prame? pramení z hlbín ?udskej substancie.. nie je však plný kalu. je to dielo.. predovšetkým pretrvávajúcej lásky.. a umenie o?istenej duše si používa všetko, aj blato, na slávu diela, ?istými rukami a bez za?úbenia v kale.

?o sa potom stane, ak na druhej strane - a teraz z h?adiska ?udského dobra - mravné svedomie umelca za predpokladu, že ho má, prehlási, že nie?o v diele, ?o je umelecky dobré a nutné, pokým môže súdi?, je mravne zlé a musí sa teda zmeni?? ..potom sa umelec musí snaži?, aby o?istil svoj prame?. nie je to pohodlné a je na to treba ve?kú trpezlivos?. iné reálne riešenie neexistuje.

A sweet and happy soul is the ripened fruit of experience and wisdom, and it sheds abroad the invisible yet powerful aroma of its influence, gladdening the hearts of others, and purifying the world.