Quotes about Refinement

Less is only more where more is no good.

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.

Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.

Why must we love the Lord? Because as we do so, we become refined, pure, and holy.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

Yes, seasons, criticisms, and events can refine you—they have the potential to shape the mettle of your life, but they are not the substance of your life . . . God is.