Flames Quotes - Page 28

• From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sparks, Risen

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• I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

  Dante Alighieri

  Grace, Doe, Burning

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• As each man's strength gives out, as it no longer responds to his will, the inertia of the whole gradually comes to rest on the commander's will alone. The ardor of his spirit must rekindle the flame of purpose in all others; his inward fire must revive their hope.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Fire, Giving

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.104, Princeton University Press

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• The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Play, People, Suffering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Wait until the end, like the last two or three minutes of cooking, to add barbecue sauce, so it cooks into your meat. But if you add it too early, it will make your fire flame up. You don't have to slather on the sauce. Just lightly paste each side.

  Johnny Trigg

  Two, Fire, Waiting

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• If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.

  Johnny Trigg

  Fire, Oxygen, People

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• So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Loneliness, Grief

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• We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Spiritual, Teacher, Responsibility

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• Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Kindles

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.722, Delphi Classics

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• Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.

  William Shakespeare

  Oil, Snuff, Spirit

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2283, Oxford University Press

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• The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but those who have and who try to explain it to the rest of us are offering us a precious gift: a part of their soul that's been scorched in the flames of Hell. It's a little like trying to describe music to the deaf or color to the blind ... to make the irrational somewhat sensible, which is always confusing and frustrating, and ultimately futile.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Offering, Color, Soul

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• It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Voice, Greek, Bankers

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

  Virginia Woolf

  Gold, Icicles, Silver

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.742, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.

  John Muir

  Book, Soul, Mind

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Essence

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• In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Desire, Wish

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• The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Fire, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

  Rumi

  Trying, Want, Quiet

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• People of the world, the time for decision is short. It is measured in a few years. The choice is ours as to whether or not we will pay the price of peace. If we are not willing to pay it, all that we hold dear will be consumed in the flame of war. The darkness in our world today is due to the disintegration of things which are contrary to God's laws. Let us never say hopelessly this is the darkness before a storm; rather let us say with faith this is the darkness before the dawn of the golden age of peace, which we cannot now even imagine. For this, let us hope and work and pray.

  Peace Pilgrim

  War, Years, Law

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.110, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

  Dante Alighieri

  Virtue, Kindles

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The sportive, knightly battle awakens the best human characteristics. It doesn't separate, but unites the combatants in understanding and respect. He also helps to connect the countries in the spirit of peace. That's why the Olympic Flame should never die.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Understanding, Battle

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• For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Fire, Wind, Intellectual

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• A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

  Walter Scott

  Torches, Brighter

  Sir Walter Scott (1828). “Ivanhoe: a romance”, p.3

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• Undaunted faith can stop the mouths of lions, make ineffective the fiery flames, make dry corridors through beds of rivers and seas. Unwavering faith can protect against deluge, terminate droughts, heal the sick, and bring heavenly manifestations. Indomitable faith can help us live the commandments and thereby bring blessings unnumbered with peace, perfection, and exaltation in the kingdom of God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Blessing, Sea, Rivers

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