Vessel Quotes

• Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

  Max Lucado

  Emptiness, Feeling Empty, Full Of Yourself

  Max Lucado (2012). “Life to the Full”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Empty, Enough

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• A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Inspiration, Filled, Humans

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• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Clay, Care

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• Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 23, 2016

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• Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

  Horace

  Sour, Turns, Pure

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• Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

  George Muller

  Prayer, Meditation, Use

  George Muller (2005). “Release The Power Of Prayer”, p.9, Whitaker House

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• Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Heart, Empty Vessels, Grace

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• God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

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• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

  Augustus Hare

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Spring, Rain

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1928). “Morning and Evening: Daily Readings”, p.536, CCEL

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• God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.

  Billy Sunday

  Broken, Way

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• I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

  Garth Brooks

  Motivational, Running, Rivers

  Song: The River

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• Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Energy, Empty, Flooding

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• Shape clay into a vessel;
  It is the space within that makes it useful.
  Cut doors and windows for a room;
  It is the holes which make it useful.
  Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
  Usefulness from what is not there.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cutting, Space

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• I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Sleep, Voice

  "FADER 58: Kanye West Cover Story and Interview". Interview with Peter Macia, www.thefader.com. November 25, 2008.

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• Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

  Eleanor Brown

  Selfish, Empty Vessels, Care

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• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

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• I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

  Rumi

  Crush, Kindness, Flower

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• If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
  I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
  Only your presence revives my withered heart.
  You are the candle that lights the whole world
  and I am an empty vessel for your light.

  Rumi

  Flower, Heart, Empty Vessels

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• The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Father, Doe, Golden

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