St. Vincent Quotes

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Love is a flame to set the will on fire

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

Here in America when people love something they really love something, and they show it.

You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me… like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.

The pious sectarian is proud because he is confident of his right of possession in God. The man of devotion is meek because he is conscious of God's right of love over his life and soul.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.