Quotes about Candles
I love prayer candles, and I use them often.
— Marianne Williamson
All around the lobby were flickering red candles, and the room was filled with a pleasant scent of cinnamon, clove, and pine.
— Richard Paul Evans
You can point any kind of laser at my face, but I don't think Botox is for me. I think it is bad. People who have too much, they look like their faces are full of candles - a shiny, shiny face.
— Tina Fey
You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.
— Robin Jones Gunn
There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When all work is brought to a standstill, the candles are lit. Just as creation began with the word, Let there be light ! so does the celebration of creation begin with the kindling of lights. It is the woman who ushers in the joy and sets up the most exquisite symbol, light, to dominate the atmosphere of the home.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
He looked around the church, at the altar, the tabernacle, the brass candles, and the European saints, pale like albinos in the dark continent.
— Graham Greene
You know, I've got 1,000 candles in a closet in my home in Atlanta, and I suppose that is excessive. But I'll tell you what: it's the best-smelling closet you've ever been in in your life.
— Elton John
Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Now all the candles were lit, and the faces on both sides of the table were brought nearer by the candle light, and composed, as they had not been in the twilight, into a party round a table
— Virginia Woolf
Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candle-sticks. But the eternal and the everlasting salvation and grace is not upon her.
— William Faulkner
These are people who accept the fire of the Holy Spirit,' he said, 'the fire that is left behind but that is used by so few people to light their candles.
— Paulo Coelho