Quotes about Purification
Jesus did not die just to save us from the penalty of sin, nor even just to make us holy in our standing before God. He died to purify for Himself a people eager to obey Him, a people eager to be transformed into His likeness.
— Jerry Bridges
Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them...
— Jerry Bridges
Death is the only water to wash away this dirt.
— Euripides
There is still too much stuff in you that God needs to work out ââ'¬Ã‚¦ You will not be free by October.
— Lisa Bevere
Just as gold is purified in the fire, so the soul is purified in sufferings.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
— Anonymous
The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but . . . what we are meant to be.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Let us look at every person who annoys or agitates us, as God's means of grace, God's instrument for our purification, for the working out of the humility Jesus our Life breathes within us.
— Andrew Murray
The apostle teaches us that nothing from us will please God, unless we are purged by the blood of Christ.
— John Calvin
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
— Joseph Campbell
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
— Teresa of Avila
The common word for this inner abiding place of the Spirit, which is also a place of longing, has usually been the word soul. We have our soul already—we do not "get" it by any purification process
— Fr. Richard Rohr