Fire Quotes - Page 17

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

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

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.

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.

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].

You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?

Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases bring crop-withering heat waves, more-destructive storms, more-intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting. We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize.

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

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

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

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

I only saw fire and chandeliers and smoke. No people. Not the room. Not even a time frame. Do you know how many chandeliers there are in the south wing alone? What was I supposed to do? Tell everyone to avoid chandeliers forever?

Words are good servants but bad masters.

In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.