Topical Bible: Fire: Though Small, Kindles a Great Matter

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James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!
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Whether Charity Can Decrease?
... ie of charity, "are fire and flames." Now fire ever mounts ... Thus sick people sometimes,
though they love health much ... when a man offends in a small matter he does ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether charity can decrease.htm

The Leaven.
... When great masses are affected, a boiling becomes unspeakably ... land; and a nation
thus on fire kindles another by ... Lord and in the Lord, though small at first as ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/iv the leaven.htm

Acts iii. 1
... holes (eis kataduseis) and corners, and in secret: though not in ... that; and just as
it is with fire, the more ... to become teachers to the world; no small honor to ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily viii acts iii 1.htm

The Burnt Offering a Picture and a Prophecy
... no matter whether they be great or small, if only ... of the burnt offering was not
expiatory, though expiation was ... who has forgiven his sins, then the fire of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the burnt offering a picture.htm

Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of C??sarea in ...
... still glittered, and waited, while His bow, though bent, was ... to himself, it became
all on fire with rage ... age, but especially the men from the small-arms factory ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xliii funeral oration on.htm

Rom. I. 8
... And what may this small one be which thou art now going to ... another way he hints to
them the same thing, though in a ... and me." For as in the case of fire, if any ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily ii rom i 8.htm

The Misery of those Who, Besides Losing the Saints' Rest, Lose the ...
... Though Scripture speaks of God's laughing and mocking, not literally ... Why art thou
dismayed with such small sufferings as ... of thy body by holding it in the fire? ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter vi the misery of.htm

God's Restraining Power.
... interest alone that kindles this fire, nor is the fire itself always ... be fellow-workers,
and in a similar way, though it may be only in a small degree, with ...
/.../selected sermons of schleiermacher/xii gods restraining power.htm

1 Thessalonians v. 19-22
... So also do ye yourselves retain the fire of love ... But thou hastenest by, though adjured
by thy Lord ... sober, and willing to attend, gains no small instruction from ...
/.../homily xi 1 thessalonians v.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, "When Jesus had Finished These Sayings ...
... What merit has fire for burning, for it is its nature to burn? ... have got the name
of Christian, the mere title is a very small thing even though you pride ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxxvii on the words.htm