Look steadily at the Incarnation, at the love which made Christ take our place and identify Himself with us; consider the new breath of life that this one act has breathed into human life, ennobling the world and showing us how deep and lovely are the possibilities that lie in human nature; and new thoughts of your own conduct will lay hold of your mind.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
"The ennobling depths of pain" need also "the purifying fire of love" to round out a perfect character.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody
No matter though they are paradoxical in comparison with the ordinary conditions in which you work, they will have, if encouraged, an ennobling influence, even if it be for you only to say with Rabbi Ben Ezra, "What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me."
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh