Quotes by Fire Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise. Terry Pratchett fireairwater Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire Theodore Roethke bonespainfire A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence. Theodore Roethke firelakesheart You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. Theodore Sturgeon pagesfirewriting The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart. Theophan the Recluse gracefireheart What is desire?-- Theodore Roethke impulsefiredesire Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these. Theophrastus firecloudsscience It's not a party until the fire department shows up. Thom Filicia partyfireshows The wound that's made by fire will heal, Thiruvalluvar tonguefiremade Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture! Theophilus London breathingdragonsfire Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are. Thomas Aquinas firebeautifulbelieve Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers Thomas a Kempis flamesfiresleep Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas. Thomas Bailey Aldrich sunsetfireclouds Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire. Terry Pratchett curvescitiesfire Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. Thomas Brooks fireprayermen Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel. Thomas Campbell fireloveneeds The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell. Thomas Brooks iceearthfire Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. Thomas Brooks lightfireheart The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time. Thomas Aquinas painfiredoe As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man. Thomas a Kempis glowingfiremen«171172173174175176177178179180181»
