Fire Quotes

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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Carl Sagan
The revelation of God is the fuel for the fire of our worship — Matt Redman
When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should… — Jean de Joinville
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man… — Edward McKendree Bounds
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire.… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the… — Saint John Chrysostom
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer. — Thomas Brooks
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more.… — John L. Bates
I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be on a sinking ship-and survive.… — Isaac Asimov
Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast. — William Shakespeare
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. — Samuel Chadwick
When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word. — John of Kronstadt
The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes… — John Mott
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off… — Charles Spurgeon
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur." — Arthur Conan Doyle
My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was — William Shakespeare
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm. — Nicolas Chamfort
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and… — Frederick Douglass
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism… — William Hazlitt

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