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“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

Men Heart May Passion Cases Fire Wind Add Arise Burning Ignite Wild Passion

Author:Jack Kerouac

“I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.”

Heart Fire Television Understood Burning Appeals Charm Primitive Irresistible

Author:John Updike

“A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth”

Men Heart Earth Fire Goes On Sacred Burning Flames Fuel Quests Belly Sanctuary Ignite Ardor Sacred Fire

Book:Fire in the belly: on being a man

Source: Fire in the belly: on being a man

“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”

Men Heart Art Art Is Burning Manifestation Internals Justification Shallow Ignite Combustion

Author:Glenn Gould

“Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.”

Love Heart Soul Love Is Fire Clouds Burning Smoke Flames Aspire Windy

Book:Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

Source: Arthur Symons: Selected Writings

“But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.”

Men Looks Heart Soul Light Broken Burning Flames One Man Another Man

Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.”

Source: The world is learning compassion

“I believe that You, O Jesus, are in the most holy Sacrament. I love You and desire You. Come into my heart. I embrace You. Oh, never leave me. May the burning and most sweet power of Your love, O Lord Jesus Christ, I beseech You, absorb my mind that I may die through love of Your love, Who were graciously pleased to die through love of my love.”

Mind Believe Heart May Desire Dies Jesus I Believe Christ Lord Love You Sweet My Heart Holy Jesus Christ Embrace Burning Sacraments Leaving Me Lord Jesus Christ Never Leave Me

Author:Francis of Assisi

“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.”

Firsts Heart Mean Left Term Water Results Trouble Sky Regret Difficulty Disappointment Burning Fewer Smooth Presidency

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.”

Heart Made Eye Night Views Fire Air My Heart Winter Snow Burning Heat Fearful Lifting Babe Lifting Up Burning Bright

Author:Robert Southwell

“A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning lake turns into a forest pool,The fire subsides into rings of water,A sunlit silence.”

Ifs Heart Turns Waiting Water Silence Fire Violence Creation Terrible Rings Forests Burning Instant Lakes Pool Fearful Flash Unafraid Burning Heart

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.”

Men Heart Stills Asks Jesus Sin Creatures Letting Go Hatred Fellows Forgiving Burning Confession Grudge Festering

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler