Purification Process Quotes & Sayings

For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin. — Giancarlo Esposito

We should strive to understand the weakness of others. — Ellen G. White

People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their own mental limitations. I want people to escape the expected and ordinary, to escape the regular expectations of a story, and truly step into a different world of literature. — Lionel Suggs

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. — Martha Graham

I can't begin to guess her story, except that there were undoubtedly two times or three, when what had happened to her was grievously at odds with what she had expected - so grievously at odds that any return to the faith or the patterns of the time before the event became impossible. — Deirdre McNamer

This implies that purification is a lifelong process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart. — Hamza Yusuf

God is so pure that if we were to behold Him within the context of our natural bodies, we would be destroyed because of the impurity of sin in our flesh that was genetically passed down to us through the sin of Adam and Eve. God purifies, or makes purely holy, everything He touches. That's right; the purification process of His total presence would destroy our natural bodies completely, because no good thing is in us. Isn't that a mystery? But then, it's a mystery to me how He made evergreens to stay green perpetually, or how fish spawn, or how birds sing so beautifully. We cannot put God in a box, or try to intellectualize His every facet. We would just sound pompous. — Marion Green

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value. — Jean Gebser

But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was liberating, it was like unshaking proof of the great lie of God's existence. — Juhani Peltonen

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior. — Rand Paul

Jonathan Green sat in one of the leather director's chairs across from my desk and the two lesser attorneys went to the couch. Truly stayed on his feet. The videographer noticed the Pinocchio clock on the wall, then hustled around to the opposite side of my desk so that he could get both me and the clock in the frame. The Pinocchio clock has eyes that move side to side as it tocks. Photogenic. Like Green. — Robert Crais

The life in our possession is our time — Sunday Adelaja

Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it ... was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest. — Hans Wegner

When the Lord wants to give us a mission, wants to give us a task, He prepares us. He prepares us to do it well ... What is important is the whole journey by which we arrive at the mission the Lord entrusts to us ... when the Lord gives a mission, He always has us enter into a process, a process of purification, a process of discernment, a process of obedience, a process of prayer. — Pope Francis

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain — Jack Kornfield

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process. — Masanobu Fukuoka

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison. — Antonya Nelson

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work. — Yukio Mishima

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. — Amit Ray

The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization. — Julian Jaynes

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar. — Tom Petty

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit. — Swami Vivekananda

If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death. — Jiddu Krishnamurti