Quotes About Overflowing

Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?

A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.

The humble man begs for a share in what everybody else has received. He too desires to be filled to overflowing with the kindness and mercy of God.

The ground was so full of life that it could not contain itself, erupting everywhere in a delirium of vegetation.

Perhaps it was a case of time overflowing.

Israel is thirsting for water, and Turkey is overflowing with it.

Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

It's all too much.

Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Fully Filled pot does not spill

ran along the stone wall. Two years ago this pantry had been full to overflowing with hams smoked in ash and jars full of duck fat set beside coils of sausage. Bottles of aged champagne

Overflowing thanksgiving

What will He not give Who so much loves giving and can give all that He will?

And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just masses of poetry. It's unstoppable, it's uncorkable. There's no way to make it end.

The sweetness of this content overflowing runs down the walls of my mind, and liberates understanding.

A good example to illustrate the difference between the inhibited and unsatisfied types is the state of their cupboards: the cupboards of the inhibited subtype tend to be nearly empty, and these individuals become anxious if their cupboards are too full while the cupboards of the unsatisfied subtype are overflowing, and they become anxious when supplies start to diminish.

It is the flow of a communal action that is full of the overflowing grace of God, present in gestures and concrete signs as well as in words.

Just once, Id like to be fed so much love that I couldn't take any more. Just once.

A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.

The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching's universe and then ten thousand more. Her love was full-throated and all-encompassing and unadorned. Every day she blew through her entire reserve.

Adoration is love overwhelmed by the beauty, the power, the immense grandeur of the loved object. Love then falls into a kind of faint, into a full and profound silence. It is also the final effort of a soul that is overflowing and can no longer speak."   ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.