Quotes about Refinement
Details are always vulgar
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Bishop TD Jakes
I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
— Winston Churchill
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
— Samuel Johnson
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.
— Gary Thomas
Real improvement is of slow growth only.
— Seneca
As silver in a crucible and gold in a pan, so our lives are assayed by GOD.
— Eugene Peterson
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.
— Bruce Lee
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.
— John Donne
On the Anvil
— Max Lucado
He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold. Job 23:10
— Beth Moore
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
— Charles Stanley