Love is friendship set on fire.
– Jeremy Taylor
Love | Friendship | Fire
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.
– William Booth
Holiness | Fire
Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed. Read the word, not only as a history, but labor to be affected with it. Let it not only inform you, but inflame you. “Is not my word like a fire? saith the Lord”: Jer 23:29. Go not from the word till you can say as those disciples, “Did not our hearts burn within us?” Lu 24:32.
– Thomas Watson
The Bible | Fire
Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God.
– Samuel Chadwick
Holiness | Fire
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
– George Washington
Conscience | Fire
There are times when life, like a river, is over your head and you feel like you are drowning. Yet, the water from these very rivers wash away your filth. What the water does not remove, the fire purifies.
– Francis Frangipane
Life | Fire
It is a coal from God’s altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.
– William Penn
Suffering | Fire | Sacrifice
Destitute of the Fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing Fire, nothing else matters.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Fire
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
– Charles Wesley
Perseverance | Fire
A church can be unified in one of two ways. You can freeze together, as the Church of the Frozen Chosen; or you can melt together with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
– John Hagee
Church | Fire
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
– A. B. Simpson
The Holy Spirit | Fire
Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.
– Thomas Fuller
Fire | Men
We know God but as men born blind know the fire: they know that there is such a thing as fire, for they feel it warm them, but what it is they know not. So, that there is a God we know, but what He is we know little, and indeed we can never search Him out to perfection; a finite creature can never fully comprehend that which is infinite.
– Thomas Manton
Fire
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
– Helen Keller
Patience | Fire | Joy
Meditation doth discriminate and characterize a man; by this he may take a measure of his heart, whether it be good or bad; let me allude to that; “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7. As the meditation is, such is the man. Meditation is the touchstone of a Christian; it shows what metal he is made of. It is a spiritual index; the index shows what is in the book, so meditation shows what is in the heart.
– Thomas Watson
Fire
Take care of giving up your first zeal; beware of cooling in the least degree. Ye were hot and earnest once; be hot and earnest still, and let the fire which once burnt within you still animate you. Be ye still men of might and vigor, men who serve their God with diligence and zeal.
– Charles Spurgeon
Fire | Zeal
My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.
– John Wesley
Apathy | Fire
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.
– Charles H. Brent
Forgiveness | Fire
I never love those salamanders that are never well but when they are in the fire of contention. I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior, is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of uniqueness.
– Joseph Hall
Adversity | Fire
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Fire | The Heart
Let no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Spirit.
– Samuel Chadwick
The Holy Spirit | Sanctification | Fire
How we have prayed for a Revival – we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not – what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire to win others.
– Assorted Authors
Revival | Fire
Wise anger is like fire from the flint; there is a great ado to bring it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
– Matthew Henry
Anger | Fire
If these little sparks of holy fire thus heaped up together do not give life to your prepared and already enkindled spirit, yet they will sometimes help to entertain a thought, to actuate a passion, to employ and hallow a fancy.
– Jeremy Taylor
The Holy Spirit | Fire | Passion
Nothing I am sure has such a tendency to quench the fire of religion as the possession of money.
– J. C. Ryle
Money | Fire
No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Purity | Fire
The fire doesn’t make you what you are; it reveals what you were.
– Jack Hyles
Fire