No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial. But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.
A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic
Ivo van Hove is directing The Crucible, and rehearses in quite an unusual way. We started rehearsals last week and dived straight into the first act, like, five minutes after we all turned up. No warm-ups. We were very intensely immersed in that whole world on day one. It was quite surreal because I've never done any theater before.
The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.
It is a kind and wise arrangement of Providence that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength. . . . the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold.
I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.
Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted
Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.
Cities are the crucible of civilization.
We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need to become skilled at walking the line between urgency and hope, maintaining our balance in a world out of balance. I’m convinced that out of the crucible of crisis, the greatest love story on Earth could be born.
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.
I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness. . . and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
