Quotes about Refinement

Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

Details are always vulgar

You have to be somewhat ruthless with your work. You have to let things go. Even your favourite little part might not work in the end.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

If we live without an eternal perspective, earthly trials become larger than life. Without the hope of heaven or the sense of the importance of a growing character and refinement, there is nothing to prepare for, nothing to look forward to; it is like practicing and practicing but never getting to actually play a game. Life gets boring, tedious, and tiresome.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.

Everything I do is about improvement.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.