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“Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.”

Gold Noble Providence Affliction Clay Constancy Furnaces Caleb

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.”

Art Fate Gold Blame Clay Furnaces

Author:Ivan Panin

“If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.”

Ifs Gold Furnaces

Author:T. B. Joshua

“Emulation has been termed a spur to virtue, and assumes to be a spur of gold. But it is a spur composed of baser materials, and if tried in the furnace will be found to want that fixedness which is the characteristic of gold. He that pursues virtue, only to surpass others, is not far from wishing others less forward than himself; and he that rejoices too much at his own perfections will be too little grieved at the defects of other men.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.”

Real Perfect Virtue Gold Tests Metals Being Real Diamond Steel Brighter Gleam Furnaces Crucible

Author:Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.”

May Ends Helping Suffering Faith Religious Depends Gold Granted Excellent Rely Tested Persevere Furnaces

Author:John Calvin

“Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.”

Book:An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839

Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839

“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Mind Looks May Use Strong Building Wind Broken Gold Weight Blow Scales Look Up Staff Rotten Reeds Furnaces Stand Strong

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.”

Men Lying Effects Months Depends Judgment Losing Gold Every Man Grain Affliction Criteria Furnaces Judgment Of Others

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.”

Men Fire Gold Adversity Acceptable Furnaces

Author:George Santayana

“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”

Source: The Yeats companion

“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.”

Courage Discipline Gold Treatment Silver Rough Testing Sufi Boiling Furnaces Scum Dross

Author:Rumi