Overflow Quotes

• When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Heart, Joy

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1446, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.

  Henri Nouwen

  Grace, World, Kingdoms

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• Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Fountain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 11, 2014

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• Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Grace, Favors, Draws

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

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• 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 our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Demand, Mysterious, Wonderful

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• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Safety

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• No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Lives Of Others

  Eugene H. Peterson (1996). “Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson”, Harper San Francisco

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• One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Heart, Want

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.111, Penguin

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• Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.

  John Piper

  Love Is, Views, Joy

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.120, Multnomah

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• 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 about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  Matt Redman

  God, Christian, Religious

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• God's dream is that you have an abundance, that you be totally out of debt, pay your house off, pay your credit cards off, and have so much overflow that you can be a blessing to everyone around you!

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Blessing, House

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• Tender pauses speak
  The overflow of gladness,
  When words are all too weak.

  William C. Bryant

  Speak, Weak, Gladness

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• One of God's main purposes for your life is to fill you with so much of His love that it overflows onto others.

  Stormie Omartian

  Purpose, His Love, Life Is

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Parent”, p.45, Harvest House Publishers

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• An overflow of good converts to bad.

  William Shakespeare

  Converting

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.156

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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  Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

  William Wordsworth

  Powerful, Poetry, Feelings

  Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24

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• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Greatness, Trying, Facts

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• 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 adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Adventure, Self

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.580, Sahitya Akademi

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• Lay me down,
  Let the only sound,
  Be the overflow,
  Pockets full of stones.

  Florence Welch

  Pockets, Sound, Stones

  "Song: What The Water Gave Me (Album: Ceremonials)". 2011.

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• It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Fall, Cutting, Government

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• The heavens are not filled with hostility. The sky does not express a frown. When I look up I do not contemplate a face of brass, but the face of infinite good will. Yet when I was a child, many a picture has made me think of God as suspicious, inhumanly watchful, always looking round the corner to catch me at the fall. That "eye," placed in the sky of many a picture, and placed there to represent God, filled my heart with chilling fear. . . . Heaven overflows with good will toward us! Our God not only wishes good, he wills it!

  John Henry Jowett

  God, Children, Fall

  John Henry Jowett (0101). “My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year”, p.363, Prabhat Prakashan

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• With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

  Craig Groeschel

  Prayer, Discipline, May

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

  Bill Gosper

  Errors, Pigs, Independence

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• The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Laughter, Heart

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• The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

  William Godwin

  Love, Happiness, Justice

  William Godwin (1793). “An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness”, p.417

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