Furnace Quotes
81 quotes by 69 authors
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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
— Richard Cecil
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It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar…
— Robert Benchley
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Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and…
— Anne Bradstreet
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The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery…
— Howard W. Hunter
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
— Rumi
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in…
— Peter Chrysologus
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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and…
— Catherine of Genoa
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O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
— Samuel Rutherford
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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
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In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort…
— Gary Snyder
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The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true.…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of…
— Zhuangzi
Who Wrote These Furnace Quotes
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