Quotes About Burning

But in the moonlight your eyes glow like there's a fire burning in you. It's as if you were born to spread warmth and love.

Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.

She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.

Mason said, with admiration, that it made me a stone-cold bastard, but this girl had pushed me to a reckless burning edge I didn't even recognize, and her calm reply only pushed me further.

And it was different because, above all other things, that heavy and painful Book of Regrets had been successfully burnt to dust.

Acidity (sour) turns down oxidation (heat) in the cells, but in large amounts it causes oxidation or burning

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

Remarkably, those small moments of movement can add up to more than two thousand calories a week, which just so happens to be what those overfed study subjects started burning up and about what you'd get from the hour-a-day exercise recommended for weight loss.

As the twentieth-century theologian Emil Brunner put it, "The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church. . . ."24

And the light kept darkness away until the Morning Star came and found it burning

All of these people, it was as if they were all turning to gold, all marked with an invisible X on their foreheads, as of course we are, too, the place and time yet to be determined. Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.

My cheeks were burning like those of a squirrel hoarding jalapeños

A minister in Iowa burned the book in his church parking lot. (This is not as bad as it sounds—before they can burn it, they've got to buy it.)

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

The smell of burning diesel can be overpowering by itself, a scrambled sulfur-and-egg mixture sometimes described as the scent of Satan cooking breakfast.

A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Make love so that from your passion, everything around you burns out, so that only burnt skeletons on ashes and burning coals are left from you.

My spirit is warmed up with the visions of my destiny; while my heart is burning with the desires to achieve them all. Those thoughts have produced a thick smoke that's clouding my mind from focusing in the present moment.

The love of God is so hot than a burning coal. It burns the heart and warms the chest; while at the same time calming the mind like still water.

Orleans . . . the place where Joan of Arc, while depending on God, had defeated the British in a great battle for freedom. Joan and I had a lot in common. But there would be no burning at the stake for me. Robert would not allow it.

I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

She doesn't know poets can have ash in the soul, or that after so much burning there comes a time when there's nothing left but blowing away or phoenix-rising.

In the end, respiration and burning are equivalent; the slight delay in the middle is what we know as life.