Quotes about Refinement
Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Leisure with dignity.
- Cicero
The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
- Deuteronomy 28:56
For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.
- Psalm 66:10
Remove the dross from the silver, and a vessel for a silversmith will come forth.
- Proverbs 25:4
I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
- Isaiah 1:25
See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
- Isaiah 48:10
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
- Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:19
Some of the wise will fall, so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
- Daniel 11:35
Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
- Daniel 12:10