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O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like a wheel in rotation from west to east around its own center."

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare . . . There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care what we believe and they will stare vacantly at our religious forms, but there is one thing they will never forgive us-the presence of God's Spirit in our hearts. They may not know the cause of that strange feeling of antagonism which rises within them, but it will be nonetheless real and dangerous. satan will never cease to make war on the Man-child, and the soul in which dwells the Spirit of Christ will continue to be the target for his attacks.

I have come to a still, but not a deep center, _x000D__x000D_A point outside the glittering current; _x000D__x000D_My eyes stare at the bottom of a river, _x000D__x000D_At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains, _x000D__x000D_My mind moves in more than one place, _x000D__x000D_In a country half-land, half-water. _x000D__x000D_I am renewed by death, thought of my death, _x000D__x000D_The dry scent of a dying garden in September, _x000D__x000D_The wind fanning the ash of a low fire. _x000D__x000D_What I love is near at hand, _x000D__x000D_Always, in earth and air.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

Web analytics is a fire extinguisher. Your website is on fire and you're burning cash.

By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many_x000D_ proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many_x000D_ magistrates liquefying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the_x000D_ Christians; so many sages philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their_x000D_ deluded pupils; so many tragedians more tuneful in the expression of their_x000D_ own sufferings; so many dancers tripping more nimbly from anguish then_x000D_ ever before from applause.

A fish cannot drown in water,_x000D_A bird does not fall in air._x000D_In the fire of creation,_x000D_God doesn't vanish:_x000D_The fire brightens._x000D_Each creature God made_x000D_must live in its own true nature;_x000D_How could I resist my nature,_x000D_That lives for oneness with God?

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.