Brennan Manning

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

American Author

Smedley Butler

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

American Soldier

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Indian Leader

Walter F. Mondale

We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to save it and purify it and protect it.

American Lawyer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

American President

Swami Vivekananda

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

Indian Clergyman

Aeschylus

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Greek Poet

Princess Nokia

I just want to purify my body, purify my mind, and make good music and keep living my life.

American Musician

Emma Goldman

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

Russian Activist

Anna Julia Cooper

American Educator

Purify often refers to making water or air safe and clean for use.

Practical Uses

Purify implies removing harmful substances, not just dirt or mess.

Beyond Cleaning

In health contexts, purify stresses the elimination of germs and bacteria.

Health Safety

Purify can mean improving one's moral or ethical state.

Moral Improvement

To purify oneself suggests a process of personal development and improvement.

Personal Journey

In religious contexts, purify can involve specific rituals to cleanse one's soul.

Religious Rituals

In chemistry, purify refers to removing impurities to isolate a specific substance.

Scientific Processes

Purifying a substance often makes it more effective for its intended use.

Greater Efficiency

Purify is commonly used in academic and technical contexts to describe precise processes.

Academic Language

 for purifying water, but we were also able to reduce Styrofoam waste, solving two global problems with just one solution. So from then on, we were inspired to take our project further, performing more tests to make it more effective and testing it in real world situations. We then proceeded to receive funding

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 water production so in the world usually the back label contains a lot of messages so it's interesting it looks like there's more information from the consumer actually on bottled water again China then in the States yes it contains a lot of information even just a bottle purified water that's

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 to scatter and slow down neutrons just enough to increase their capture by uranium and raise the rate of fission. Modern reactors commonly use purified water as a moderator, but the scattered neutrons are still a little too fast. To compensate and keep up the chain reaction,

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 with some wastewater treatment engineers; they purify wastewater. And some of them were very resistant, actually, to being there. What they said to us at first was, you know, we already do biomimicry. We use bacteria to clean our water. And we said,

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 path of evil to signal passage from the world of the dead to the world of the Spirit the body must come feet first into the village open palms invoked the spirit inviting it to return in voodoo contact with the chicken purifies the body

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 the kids were going to do e at raves no matter how many cops we have in the street and he thought those kids should know what they were getting he died while purifying two point two kilos of dirty Street ecstasy in his kitchen the

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 Roots help prevent floods, while reducing the need for storm drains and water treatment plants. Their porous leaves purify the air by trapping carbon and other pollutants, making them essential in the fight against climate change.

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 gave birth to us some of their blood remains in us which is considered unclean when we do the ritual it helps get rid of the rubbish that is stored in our system and purifies us this is the

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 inviting it to return in voodoo contact with the chicken purifies the body preparing it for birth still a Seba seems lifeless a priestess calls on the

 mm-hmm how do I not know about that one was that don't over purify your water minerals and salts add character so what do you guys use this for good