a child is a fire to be lit, not a vase to be filled

A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

There's an old saying that a child not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. I'd update it to say the child not sufficiently entertained by the village will burn it down for the spectacle.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

Eduquer, c'est allumer un feu

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?
I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

But burning was their fate; they were the generation meant to be consumed by fire.

By saying that He will even hand us over to burning for the sake of sufferings, torment and all sorts of ills,

Where one burns books, there one eventually burns people.

Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. [...] Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.