Quotes about Refinement

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

But our God is an expert at removing worthless things out of us while retaining the valuable.

Suffering related to circumstances beyond my control, suffering related to consequences of my besetting sin, and suffering caused by others who refused to see their own sin. In all these instances, the Lord has been at work, refining my focus upon personal holiness, amplifying my ministry through very humbling experiences, and reminding me repeatedly to extend grace not just to the gracious but to those who lack a grace I took too long to come to myself.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.