Quotes about Consume

On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.

When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”

His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”

but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

How can a heart given up to human affections be closely united to God? It seems to me that it is impossible. I have seen so many souls, allured by this false light, fly right into it like poor moths, and burn their wings, and then return, wounded, to Our Lord, the Divine fire which burns and does not consume.

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.