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.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today is to purify and elevate her concept of God until it is once more worthy of Him.
Shut off the poisonous inflow; purify what is here.
There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
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.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
