The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay. — Ivan Panin Copy Share Image
Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after… — David Copy Share Image
To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them. — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“This is the School of Babylon And at its hand we learn To walk into the furnaces And whistle as we burn.” — Thomas Blackburn Copy Share Image
The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To restore our inflamed atmosphere to a hospitable state requires nothing less than rewiring the entire globe - and replace every oil-burning… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight.… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human… — William Blake Copy Share Image
O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca Copy Share Image
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
