The Fire Quotes

The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.

The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us. They can try like hell to put it out, but as long as we know in our minds who we are meant to be, they will never stand a chance.

Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work.

Words are good servants but bad masters.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

Baby boy, go hire a squadron My crib got more poles than a fire department.

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate.

Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way.

You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Now the dark air is like fire on my skin, And even the moonlight is blinding