#candle

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#box #candles #catholic #catholic church #church

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#all things #birthday #born #candles #covered

Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it. ↗

— Roger Maris

#built #candlestick #should #under #water

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#candles #changes #lighting #mass #never

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. ↗

— Robert Burton

#candle #effect #enlarge #illustrate #love is

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#blowing #candle #come #day #flame

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. ↗

— Buddha

#burn #candle #cannot #fire #just

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#candle #disappeared #failed #kidnapped #prison

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#blow #cake #candle #get #getting

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#excuse #i #late #poor #scribbling