For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

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

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

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 then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Anne Bradstreet

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
Mother Maribel

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
Georg Buchner

Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
Matthew Henry

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.
Marilu Henner