Fire Quotes - Page 18

• If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Doctors, Overcoming

  "To the Christian Nobility of the German States" by Martin Luther, 1520.

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• A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Devil, Gold

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.19

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• If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Lying, Fall, Feet

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The King's Tragedy James I. Of Scots.—20th February 1437”

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• Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Anger, Wind, Water

  Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Press

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• A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.

  Theodore Roethke

  Heart, Lakes, Water

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

  Phil Ochs

  People, Car, Birmingham

  Song: Talking Birmingham Jam

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• I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .

  Stephen Spender

  Song, Ambition, Thinking

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Flower, Hero, Sunset

  Stephen Spender (2015). “Selected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

  Stephen Spender

  Heart, Air, Wind

  'I think continually of those who were truly great' (1933)

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• There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Mean, Enemy, Violent

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Men, Broken

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  Anthony Trollope

  Struggle, Self, Giving

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A novel”, p.350

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• Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.

  John Ashbery

  Home, People, Steps

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.2, Ardent Media

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• The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

  Thomas Reid

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.489, Georg Olms Verlag

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• The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Fall, Desire, Bread

  Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

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• I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.

  Nora Roberts

  Boys, Blood, Young

  "Nora Roberts: The woman who rewrote the rules of romantic fiction" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2011.

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• It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

  Judah P. Benjamin

  Character, Justice, Effort

  "The Emergence of Lincoln". Book by Allan Nevins, p. 387, 1950.

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• To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Monsters, Faces, Another Day

  "Life As It Is" by Nelson Rodrigues, translated by Alex Ladd, Host Publications, (p. ii), 2009.

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• Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!

  Bob Proctor

  Hate, Moving, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 18, 2012

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• The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

  Caroline Myss

  Soul, Doe, Survivor

  "Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul". Book by Caroline Myss, 2007.

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• Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

  Jim Butcher

  Sex, Children, Book

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.23, Penguin

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• Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

  John Cowper Powys

  Book, Writing, Animal

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy covering your business, the good will as they sometimes call it. You must insure yourself, and the best way to do it is by advertising. Good advertising kept up for a number of years gives you something that no fire can take away.

  Frank Farrington

  Years, Numbers, Issues

  Frank Farrington (1910). “Retail Advertising: Complete”

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• Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Flames, Desire, Sacred

  William Alexander, “Sonet 1”

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• If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

  Tommy Tenney

  God, Fuel, Want

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers

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