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"I'm very glad Christ tells us to love our neighbor and not to like our neighbor because it's hard to like someone threatening your children and throwing fire bombs through your window, but He asks us to love them and that I can do"
"If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth."
"I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery."
"when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan."
"But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you."
"Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process?""
"If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us."
"Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio."
"By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry."
"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
"Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars."
"Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared."
"Donald Trump didn't just throw out the playbook, he set fire to it. And America loved it."
"When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble."
"What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?"
