We are walking through this fire which is called Earth

This whole vast world is a furnace and we are tried and then received back by God as background in the imagery of his perfect son.

We are all put into the furnace and are being burned by the experiences of life and when we have gone through it all then He awakens within us and takes us to Himself.

“Whom God has afflicted He will comfort and call his friend.” So if you are hurt do not believe that it was because of what you did in the past.

whom God afflicts, he did it for a sound end, and that was that he might awaken

Do not be embarrassed at what you lose. The best thing you can lose is false pride. You may have to go through the furnaces to lose false pride, for it is Jacob’s command.

He went through every furnace, for no one playing Judas could skip one.

Only through suffering can you turn into Christ. God is looking for the guileless heart, not the guileful heart.

It is like putting gold in the raw state of ore into the furnace and then bringing out molten gold, pure gold. It takes heat, it takes fire, and this is the fire, these are the furnaces of experience

In any deceitful act on your part, there is still more fire that you must pass through, still more experiences

So we are told in the 48th of Isaiah, “I have put you through the furnaces of affliction. For my own sake, I do it, for my own sake, for how should my glory be given to another?”

he has put me through the fires of affliction. For his own sake, he did it, for his own sake, for there is no other way in the world of bringing me into that state of perfection

all the suffering that I have gone through throughout unnumbered centuries up to this moment, which in his infinite mercy, he keeps from me, so I would have no memory of the past, all the suffering.

You walk this world and you do not think you are in a fire, but this world is the fire, and when you come out you are like a burnt offering in the hand of God. This world is the flame of experience.

The best thing that ever happened to me was when I was fired from Macy’s during the depression. I might be captain of the elevators if I had stayed there.

Let the wheel turn, for each must go through all the furnaces until he awakens and sees the whole universe as infinite response.

The lady does not relate this to the way I express imagination. I say: in the midst of the flames, use God’s law.

But you put it in the fire to bring it into a molten state, that it may separate itself from the dross. And when it’s completely pure, and in the molten state, then you can put it into any state you want, couldn’t you? Well, that is man.

But he tells us it is for a purpose, and the purpose is to bring perfection to the individual.

you’re just immortal being, putting through — putting through the furnace, use of perfection

when you are salvaged from this world of states, the furnaces of affliction, bear in mind, you didn’t earn it

one day will be extracted from the furnaces of affliction