Aflame Quotes

#1. Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

Melissa De La Cruz

#2. What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose ... We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#3. Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Wilferd Peterson

#4. Earth is crammed with heaven, and every bush is aflame with the glory of God. But only those who see take of their shoes; the rest just pick the berries.

Elizabeth Browning

#5. She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.

Cassandra Clare

#6. Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame.

Denise Levertov

#7. My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Ba Jin

#8. I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold
And set my ashes aflame.

Muhammad Iqbal

#9. With the fire of acts, Ravana, is Heaven brilliant and Hell aflame.

William Buck

#10. 8 o Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

Anonymous

#11. And maybe a ghost, trying to hear your words,/ Peered from the broken mullions/ And was stilled. Or was suddenly aflame/ With the scorch of doubled envy. Only/ Gradually quenched in understanding.

Ted Hughes

#12. No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions. "Mere knowledge is confessedly too weak. The affections alone remain to supply the deficiency."1

John Piper

#13. We need not hang our heads and beg. All we need to do is lift up our faces and ask. May Jesus touch our lips again with coals from the altar and set our tongues aflame with His holy fire.

Beth Moore

#14. It is so still and transcendent, the cypress trees poise like flames of forgotten darkness, that should have been blown out at the end of the summer. For as we have candles to light the darkness of night, so the cypresses are candles to keep the darkness aflame in the full sunshine.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. God deliver me from the dread asbestos of "other things." Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame.

Jim Elliot

#17. The morning was on fire as the sun rose, seemingly from the ocean depths. The great, glowing orb came to the surface and set the horizon aflame. Many minutes passed, and it floated fully into the sky to light the day and gently warm the sea below.

Victoria Kahler

#18. An abundant life is one where we are physically strong, mentally sound, and spiritually aflame. I

Toni Sorenson

#19. I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.

Donna Jo Napoli

#20. I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages.

Ezra Taft Benson

#21. Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

Rachel Carson

#22. I would pour out
the contents
of my heart
and set it all aflame,
just to hear
her impossible mouth
slowly moan
my name.

Kirk Diedrich

#23. The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts ...

Chretien De Troyes

#24. While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.

Peter De Vries

#25. At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth.

Geraldine Brooks

#26. a single person whose heart is aflame with the love of God can create a wildfire that spreads far and wide

Rudy Rasmus

#27. The pyromaniacs of the Third Reich were now playing their final scene on the stage of the world: they who had set the world aflame were now perishing in their own fires.

Miklos Nyiszli

#28. Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

Rajneesh

#29. This man has captivated every nerve ending in my body and set it aflame.

Nicole Gulla

#30. This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#31. pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him:

Hanya Yanagihara

#32. Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#33. The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

Meister Eckhart

#34. Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.

Michele Halberstadt

#35. A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

R.C. Sproul

#36. A man's greatest moment in life is when his enemy lays vanquished, his village aflame, his herds driven before you and his weeping wives and daughters are clasped to your breast.

Genghis Khan

#37. Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity?

Phan Ming Yen

#38. Her glance, the touch of her hand, set him aflame. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it, and went home, happy in the sense that he had got nearer to the attainment of his aims that evening ...

Leo Tolstoy

#39. Each of them has only one moment, a moment when it soars screaming like the phoenix, all its pages aflame. For that single moment we love them ever after, although they soon turn to ashes.

Bruno Schulz

#40. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.

Rajneesh

#41. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Though

Eric Metaxas

#42. Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

Sydney Marie Hughes

#43. I am the mystery of Love itself, the lust and spirit of unity aflame with the infinite passion for the Unknown. Thus are all things made one, in me, by virtue of my secret force; and in this light there is the unspeakable joy, the ineffable bliss, the orgasmic ecstasy of the ages.

David Cherubim

#44. The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August skies aflame with stars. The way the desert smells and the long, wistful sigh of wind rushing down from the mountains as the sun dips beneath the horizon.

Rick Yancey

#45. As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Chanakya

#46. A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.

William MacDonald