Burning Quotes

1238 Burning quotes by 956 unique authors

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related,… — Jeannette Walls
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor… — Chuck Palahniuk
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their… — Boyd K. Packer
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its… — Susanna Tamaro
Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and… — Nick Cave
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg… — Tom Holt
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And… — George Carlin
You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying… — Kelley Armstrong
No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for. — Voltaire
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of… — Sloane Crosley
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all… — Saul Alinsky
It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the… — John Fante
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with… — Eduardo Galeano
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants… — Ezra Taft Benson
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her… — Denis Johnson
Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too… — Cornelia Funke
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide… — Shannon Hale
Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all… — Kage Baker
Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning. — Jodi Picoult
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than… — Albert Schweitzer
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off… — Vera Nazarian
You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and… — Tim O'Brien

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