Incense Quotes

66 quotes by 57 authors

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that… — Alanis Morissette
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin
It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like… — Janet Fitch
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling… — Betty Smith
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt... — Ray Bradbury
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though… — John Muir
I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours… — Ahdaf Soueif
I have church on Sunday.â€ â€œOf course you do.â€ â€œYouâ€™re welcome to come along.â€ â€œThanks, but Iâ€™m allergic to incense.â€ â€œThatâ€™s a shame.â€ â€œItâ€™s the… — Alexandra Adornetto
His smellâ€”the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber muskâ€”wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again, without every breath… — Lilith Saintcrow
In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as… — John Edward Williams
Churches crack me up. They're like money, a conspiracy of faith. Like everyone agreed to believe that not only is there a God, but he… — Karen Marie Moning
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly… — Hamish Bowles
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a… — Laura Esquivel
Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling… — Lucinda Franks
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a… — Tom Robbins
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour… — Bible
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land… — Bible
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her,… — Bible

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