“The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.” Quote by Georg Buchner
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.” EnemyFireFlamesOxygenNotableSmoke And Fire Author:Otto Weininger
“The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth.” WayCountryFireBloodElementsUniversalProfoundPreservesDistinguishedAlphabetUniversal TruthAristocratic Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.” ThinkingGivingImaginationExistenceMistakeWatchesFireWonderfulShapesProveSightCoreBurningSmokeFlamesRisingMystic Author:Rumi
“Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.” PeopleEndsFireSpiritual Growth Author:Rumi
“When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."” AnswersHellSeeingBlessedMythologySaddened Author:Martin Luther
“...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.” CompassionHellRelationBlessedMythology Author:Gerhard
“They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.” KnowsJoySufferingLostLordDarknessHellEternalSaintMythology Author:Saint Augustine
“The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.” PainHellFireMaterialsMythologyThis LifeTormentExceedPurgatory Author:Thomas Aquinas
“God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.” HeavenCompanyLaughingHellJudgmentMythologyPitySmokeRejoiceRighteousExecutionCalamity Author:Thomas Boston
“Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.” LooksKindSoulMotherJusticeKnownHellSonJudgmentEternityAgreeVictimMovedRevengeMythologySatisfiedFlamesParadiseRejoiceCondemnationPsalmsClaretKind Thoughts Author:Anthony Mary Claret