Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Ikhlaas is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator. — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
We must teach plainly that the faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a faith which operates with… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we… — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is really an objective truth about either. I liken this to what Buddhism says about the individual,… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering… The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
