It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. . . . It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.
So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.
A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.
I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me. . . a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers. . . ”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
God wants His people to be ablaze with Holy Ghost activity.
The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
