Quotes about Purifying
When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat.
- Leviticus 16:20
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.
- Billy Graham
Poverty, pain, struggle, anguish, agony, and even inner darkness may continue to be part of our experience. They may even be God's way of purifying us. But life is no longer boring, resentful, depressing, or lonely because we have come to know that everything that happens is part of our way to the Father.
- Henri Nouwen
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.
- George Eliot
Integrity largely has to do with purifying our intentions and a growing honesty about our actual motives.
- Fr. Richard Rohr