Quotes About Coals

The fire had burned to coals and he lay looking up at the stars in their places and the hot belt of matter that ran the chord of the dark vault overhead and he put his hands on the ground at either side of him and pressed them against the earth and in that coldly burning canopy of black he slowly turned dead center to the world, all of it taut and trembling and moving enormous and alive under his hands. What's her name? said Rawlins in the darkness. Alejandra. Her name is Alejandra.

At that moment the gong sounded, and the genial host came tumbling downstairs like the delivery of a ton of coals.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

A pair of tribunes that have wrecked fair Rome to make coals cheap - a noble memory!

Cardan's gaze catches mine, and I can't help the evil smile that pulls up the corners of my mouth. His eyes are bright as coals, his hatred a living thing, shimmering in the air between us like the air above black rocks on a blazing summer day.

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). This is to show the mind of Christ. This is the right way to heap coals of fire on an enemy's head and to melt foes into friends (Romans 12:20).

It is love's soft breath on life's dark coals that briefly reds the fire.

“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.

Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.

The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.

And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.