Quotes by Fire There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . . Rumi firespringsong I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. Rumi burningfireenthusiasm The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. Rumi agonyfirespiritual Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only a few minutes to decide whether to fire his nuclear weapons or lose them in response to what could be a false warning? Sam Nunn russiafirewar We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it. Rumi stealingcompassionfire The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God. Rumi passionfireheart God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize. Sam Storms treasurefirejoy One loving heart sets another on fire. Saint Augustine fireheart Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it. Samael Aun Weor winefirelove-is Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not as it is: because that even we, though the well beloved of thy Son, yet it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. He looked through the lattice of our flesh and he spake us fair, yea, he set us on fire, and we hasten on his scent. But when he shall appear, then shall we be like him, for we shall see him as he is: as he is, Lord, will our sight be, though the time be not yet. Saint Augustine firetimeson his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies Samantha Shannon poppiesthumbsfire Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. Rumi feminismfiresweet Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God. Samuel Chadwick hatefirelove-is Men ablaze are invincible. Hell trembles when men kindle. The stronghold of Satan is proof against everything but fire. The Church is powerless without the flame of the Holy Ghost. Destitute of fire, nothing else really counts; possessed of fire, nothing else really matters. The one vital need is fire. Without the flame and fervour of the Holy Ghost the Church will never accomplish its mission. Samuel Chadwick flamesfiremen The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power. Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters. Samuel Chadwick safetysoulfire Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition. Samuel Chadwick firechristianphilosophy Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters. Samuel Chadwick possessingfirematter If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire. Rumi gardenfirerose Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. Samuel Butler firehomemen The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret. Rumi soulsecretfire«156157158159160161162163164165166»
