Life is the crucible that forges our soul.

“Bow down and pray in fear and trembling, go way back in the dark afraid; or work harder and harder; or stumble and learn;…

— Langston Hughes

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

— Tariq Ramadan

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know…

— Joseph Joubert

“They did not arrive alone but were attended by six cohorts, an assortment of dark-suited men so stern and judgmental of mien as to…

— Joe Keenan

“If the most precious are tried in the fire, are we to escape the crucible? If the diamond must be vexed upon the wheel,…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

With 'Crucible,' any big changes I wanted to make I only had to run by Lucasfilm, not other authors whose stories I might affect.

— Troy Denning

It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible…

— Simone Weil

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box…”

— Stanley Elkin

“Worldbuilding: Giving my characters a crucible in which to form.”

— Cathryn Louis

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

— Amy Carmichael

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,'…

— Karen DeCrow

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only…

— Douglas MacArthur

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be…

— Ford Madox Ford