Quotes by Fire May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire. A. B. Simpson firedesireheart Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. A. E. Housman squaresfirefriendship We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun. A. S. Byatt knowingfiremean No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. A. S. Byatt possessionhumansfire Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost. A. S. Byatt frosticefire In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds. A. S. Byatt weedeyefire I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that. Aaron Allston daughterfireyears No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives AB de Villiers firematterhot I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the Cross, the Cross--God's hammer, God's fire. Abbott Eliot Kittredge simplefirejesus Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood. Abbott Eliot Kittredge fireprayerjesus We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness. Abdul Kalam firewingsgiving Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. Aberjhani firenamesheaven Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes! Abigail Van Buren ashesfightingfire From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day. Abolqasem Ferdowsi passionfiredesire God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. Abraham Cahan examplefiremen When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. Abraham Kuyper firewinningrunning Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. Abraham Lincoln democracies-havefreedomfire We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot. Abraham Lincoln risingfiretwo The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things Abraham Lincoln patentsfirediscovery Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood. Abu Hurairah woodsdeedsfire1234567891011»
