Pastoral Resources

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.