Purify Quotes

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees.

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.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.