“ Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ”
- Pope John Paul II- Copy
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“ Manners are of more importance than laws… Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ”
- Langston Hughes- Copy
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“ There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. ”
- Woody Hayes- Copy
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“ When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ”
- John H. Aughey- Copy
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“ Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ The Paris store Colette is successful because it's a filter for things that are made elsewhere. It's the kind of store France needs. ”
- Christian Lacroix- Copy
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“ It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
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“ I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. ”
- Isaac Rosenberg- Copy
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“ As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ”
- Sir Richard Burton- Copy
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“ Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. ”
- Eliza Farnham- Copy
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“ Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
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“ The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. ”
- Leonard Cohen- Copy
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“ It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ”
- Alfred Loisy- Copy
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