“All candles are lighted by his torch.”
Thomas Manton
“We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning, since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it”
Billy Joel
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.”
Laura Esquivel
“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”
Pablo Neruda
“Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyal through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
Ann Landers
“The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.”
Chinese Proverb
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
Ferdinand Foch
“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
Terry Pratchett
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
Rumi
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
Frederick Douglass
“Big fires flare-up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in undercover.”
St Francis de Sales
“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.”
Bob Nelson
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”
Albert Schweitzer
“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
Jack London
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:
‘Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!’
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: ‘Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!’
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.’
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am! Send me.’”
Isaiah 6:1-8, ESV
“Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy a unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away.
If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.”
Song of Solomon 8:6-7, NIV
“Love is like an eternal flame. Many waters cannot quench its desire. A man of wealth would give all he owned to know the warming of its fire.”
Greg Austen (inspired by Song of Solomon 8:6-7)
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Psalm 119:105, NASB
He will sit like a refiner of silver, burning away the dross. He will purify the Levites, refining them like gold and silver, so that they may once again offer acceptable sacrifices to the LORD.
Malachi 3:3, NLT
For he is like
A refiner’s fire
And who shall stand
When He appeareth”
Handel’s Messiah
“I baptize with water those who repent of their sins and turn to God. But someone is coming soon who is greater than I am—so much greater that I’m not worthy even to be his slave and carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.”
Matthew 3:11, NLT
“They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.”
Acts 2:3, NIV