coals quotes

Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:27^8.

If thine enemy behungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the L shall reward thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs 25:21^2.

   Love isstrong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 8:6^7.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

- Henry Cisneros
  Of US cities, rife with racial tension. In US News and World Report,19  Apr.

Old Hodge stays not his hand, but whips to kennel The renegade.God's peace betide the souls Of the pure in heart. But in the box that fennel Grows around, are two red eyes that stare like coals.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Two Gentlemen in Bonds,'Dog'.

Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet? If ye were wauking I wad wait To gang to the coals i' the morning.

- Adam Skirving
  'Johnnie Cope', chorus (commemorating the Battle of Australian poet and journalist. In1924 he published Thief of  the Moon    and   in   1926    Earth-Visitors.    Darlinghurst    Nights    and Morning  Glories  (1933)  celebrates  'The  Cross',  the  bohemian district  of  Sydney  where  he  lived for  most  of  his  life.  His  verse was    collected    in    One    Hundred    Poems:   1919^1939    (1944, reissued  as  Poems,  1957),  and  his  prose  in   Bread  and  Wine (1970).