Overflow Quotes

121 quotes by 105 authors

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is… — Matt Redman
There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if… — Rabindranath Tagore
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,… — Rajneesh
Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose… — T. Harv Eker
Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward. — Vernon Howard
Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling… — Bernie De Koven
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. — Monica Edwards
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of… — Josemaria Escriva
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,… — Oscar Wilde
Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its… — Rabindranath Tagore
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm… — Henry Ward Beecher
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith… — Ambrose Bierce
In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our… — Walter Savage Landor
True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions -… — Gangaji
Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that… — Eratosthenes
Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids… — Aldo Leopold
God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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