Fire Quote by Marilynne Robinson Download Open image ““Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire.”” — Marilynne Robinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fire
“A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Fire was loud – not quiet. You could hear it eating everything it touched.” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“Other before me have gone much father into holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it is yet… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“You will not know all about the fire simply because you asked. When she speaks of the forest this is what she is teaching… — Katie Ford Copy Share Image
“Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large it is… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“you could blow on a fire to stoke it, but if you blew on a little flame, it would go out. He headed up… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.” — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“to know how tall a tree is I must fall from the top; that is, desire burns.” — Robin Blaser Copy Share Image
“I burnt as in a fire in her presence ... but what did I care to know what the fire was in which I… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold… the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image