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Quotes About Fire

Ace had built a small fire and was sitting with his forearms draped over his upraised knees. He must have sensed her presence because he glanced over his shoulder with a sharp jerk of his head. In profile, he was the image of hidden power and fierce beauty. She realized that he must have bathed in the chilly waters of the creek, because
~ Unknown
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
That orbèd maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor By the midnight breezes strewn.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Cotton added, "zeale is but a wilde-fire without knowledge.
~ Perry Miller
Herald the weirdos! Summon the losers and the freaks. Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes. They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension. Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden. And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.
~ Unknown
He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning turf on the fire.
~ Pete Hamill
There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through the room and the world.
~ Peter Høeg
Late August, a clear night becoming cold. There was no aurora borealis, just the dense sparks of the stars blown from their own ancient fire.
~ Peter Heller
They could hear again the gathering whispers, the swooshes and squeals, the cracks, almost as if the fire were questioning its own intentions and the woods were answering: 'We have been waiting for you our whole lives.
~ Peter Heller
The tribulation and poverty weren't the riches. They EXPOSED the riches: faith, hope, and love. Although this world burns away, writes the apostle Paul, these three will remain. Faith in Jesus, hope in Jesus, love that IS Jesus--this is treasure. The jewel exposed by the fire, the gold refined by the furnace, the treasure unearthed by the storm--treasure is found in people, and it is exposed by suffering.
~ Unknown
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
~ Genesis 15:17
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
~ Genesis 19:24
There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
~ Exodus 3:2
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
~ Exodus 12:8
Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.
~ Exodus 12:9
Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
~ Exodus 19:18
If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
~ Exodus 22:6
And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
~ Exodus 24:17
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
~ Exodus 27:3
Then burn the entire ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
~ Exodus 29:18
Then take them from their hands and burn them on the altar atop the burnt offering as a pleasing aroma before the LORD; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
~ Exodus 29:25
And offer the second lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
~ Exodus 29:41
So I said to them, ëWhoever has gold, let him take it off,í and they gave it to me. And when I threw it into the fire, out came this calf!”
~ Exodus 32:24