“The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.” IfsIdeasWholeSpaceRaceDyingDivinePureEternalEssenceJewFlamesDivinityLife And DeathEntityJudaismIntegratingExaltationSpace TimeDefying Author:Kadmi Cohen
“It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.” MenFightingLosesEternalMen And WomenContactFlamesCosmosEternal LifePersonal Things Author:D. H. Lawrence
“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.” IfsFirstsSaidChristianPainLyingHateEvilImaginationReligiousHellDoubtHorrorEternalUnderstoodFirst TimeI HateDepthHatedFlamesHeightNo DoubtOrthodoxCreedsDogmaHate YouNo FearSermonsMy ImaginationI Hate You Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“Burning desire is the eternal flame.” DesireEternalBurningFlamesBurning Desire Author:Douglas Horton
“When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.” IfsStoriesTurnsFallLosesMillionsHellHeardEternalDiedSalvationHearingMissionsBelieverShipsFlamesIslandsMissionarySavagesCaptainsCannibalMissions In LifeGreat MissionaryInspirational MissionaryFijiMissionary Life Author:K.P. Yohannan
“It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.” VoiceWeekEternalAccidentsEmploymentGreekFlamesAcquireAweTemplesBankingJuniorsBankersRegisterRiteWithdrawalDepositsBankers And Banks Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom.” IfsEarthSpiritPurposeGrowsFireWindEternalIntellectualExcitedFlamesAdmirationEnteringActuality Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young.” ThinkingChildrenStoriesYoungJesusStuffForgetHellEternalPunishmentFlamesBasicsCrucifixion Author:Bruce Springsteen
“For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.” BodyEternalEssenceFlames Author:Milan Kundera
“Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.” ThinkingTryingHardChristianLastsSinChristianityHellMeditationHorrorEternalDevilEternityCatholicSaintCommittedChristian InspirationalSavedCommitChosenMortalsFlamesSinnerMortal SinHell FireFranciscans Author:Benedict Joseph Labre
“A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.” StoriesFallChristianityMillionsHellHeardGroupsEternalSalvationHearingMissionsBelieverTinyFlamesMissionaryMissions In LifeGreat MissionaryChristian MissionaryInspirational MissionaryMissionary Life Author:K.P. Yohannan