The phrase "a consuming fire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts that describe something that is overwhelming, intense, or destructive, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The passion for her art was like a consuming fire, driving her to create day and night."
Alternatives: "an all-consuming blaze" or "a devouring flame".
And the meaning of the word Holocaust is a consuming fire.
If we can't find it in ourselves, we'll have to pile up some kindling and nurture the first tiny flickers into a consuming fire in our bellies.
"In all things she was intense: in her this characteristic was not a mere glow, dispensing warmth, but a consuming fire".
He advanced his argument in A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South (1998).
According to Hebrews 12 29, God himself is "a consuming fire". Against the view that all humankind will ultimately be saved by passing through a cleansing fire a doctrine considered sympathetically by the theologians Origen (c. 185 c. 254) and St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 c. 394) and prominent in Zoroastrian eschatology St.
As you pass through the fire your right hand waving there are things you have to throw out That caustic dread inside your head will never help you out You have to be very strong 'cause you'll start from zero over and over again And as the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire lying straight ahead.
Fill me with consuming fire for them; to my life's muzzle, cram me with your own intent.
The efficient rage of consuming fire, the handfuls of fawn ash, which she had scattered, as she had promised, in the hurrying foam of a Yorkshire beck.
Dante sees sinners forever unconsumed in consuming fire, forever scratching the scabs from their flesh, forever metamorphosing into snakes and lizards, forever upside down in filthy holes, forever brushing off burning embers that sift constantly down onto searing sand.
As played by Barrie Rutter, the founder and artistic director of the Northern Broadsides Theater (where this production originated), the old man has the concentrated, consuming fire of one of his factory's furnaces.
Now, the poor person thinks that God is an old man, as it is written, "the ancient of days sits"; and he has white hair because he is old, as it is written, "the hair of his head like clean wool"; and he sits on a great wooden throne, glittering with sparks, as it is written, "his throne was fire"; and that his appearance is like fire, as it is written, "For YHVH your God is consuming fire".
