Quotes About Purification

In brief, the purgative stage or way includes the initial phases of the spiritual life, including coming to conversion, turning away from sin, bringing one's life into conformity with the moral law, initiating the habit of prayer and the practices of piety, and maintaining a relatively stable life in the Church. (The

As John of the Cross points out with devastating accuracy and precision, the disorders in our heart, unless they are healed and purified by the action of the one true God, will leave us enslaved to our passions and unable to think clearly, decide wisely, and live in a way worthy of our dignity as bearers of the image of God.

Here John very helpfully, and very realistically, explains that a genuine purifying dryness may coexist with some elements of emotional problems, such as depression; nevertheless, if the concern to serve and please God persists in the midst of the difficulty, it is a sign of God's purifying work.

Much has to change in us in order to make us capable of deep union with God. The wounds of both original sin and our personal sins are deep and need to be healed and transformed in a process that has its necessarily painful moments. The pain of purification is called by John of the Cross the "dark night." It is important not to be surprised by the painful moments of our transformation but to know that they're a necessary and blessed part of the whole process.

In the early stages, this withdrawal helps center the soul properly on God and not on His consolations and gives an opportunity for deeper and truer decisions of commitment to God to be made. Also called the "dark night of the senses," the soul is purified of gross attachments to the delights of the senses and the things of this world, thus increasing its desire for God.

At the time, any science, as it was then called, was thought to be a challenge to the authority of the Church; a science that promised spiritual purification was a direct threat to the Church.

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

A true Sufi, Shaykh Haeri writes, "does not separate the inner from the outer," for when you "start by purifying your inner self, you end up being concerned with the outer and with society.

The great sadness cleansed me of the foul elements that had accumulated in my heart and body.

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.

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

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

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

.Fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..

.the fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.

I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.