Body Quote by Henry David Thoreau

When wood burns it is the smoke alone that rises upward, leaving the grosser elements below. So it is with prayer. The sincere intention…

— Baal Shem Tov

You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.

— Josemaria Escriva

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

— William Penn

I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm…

— Jean Craighead George

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

— Ray Mears

I was baptized through fire.

— Kelly Oubre, Jr

Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.

— Hilda Doolittle

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

— Donna Murphy

“This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily…

— Edward Bellamy

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

— Andy Stanley

“Gracious spirit kindled the fire to search for the sacred knowledge.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Around me shone the kitchen I'd worked in each day: the copper pans hung neatly, the scratched wooden table and neat blue plates set…

— Martine Bailey