Quench Quotes

• If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Book, Wish, Drink

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• God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Giving, Water

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• She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Music, Singing Songs, Voice

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Little Masterpieces”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fire, May, Feels

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• Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

  John Muir

  Men, Squares, Flesh

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Great West Books

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• We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Drink, Fountain, Thirst

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• Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Thanksgiving, Good Life, Women

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• If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Wife, Islam

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• They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Angel, Stuff

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• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

  1590-1 Julia to Lucetta.TheTwo Gentlemen ofVerona, act 2, sc.7, l.18-20.

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• He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

  J. C. Ryle

  Godly, Feet, Smoking

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspiration, Science, Artist

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not become the slave of your model.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Slave, Models, My Imagination

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.9, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

  John Donne

  God, Eye, Men

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Grateful, Heart

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• By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Water, Suffering, Quests

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Cutting, Fire, Wind

  Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Believe

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• I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Love, Pain, Compassion

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.261, Da Capo Press

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• I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

  Ellen Schreiber

  Eternity, Maxwell, Thirst

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• We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Marriage, God, Christian

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• Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Self, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Tea quenches tears and thirst.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Tea, Tears, Thirst

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• Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Meditation, Earth

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Faith, Pain, Grief

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