The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap. — Billy Sunday
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
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. — Steve Finley
God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels — Kathryn Kuhlman
Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful. — Lao Tzu
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating. — John Green
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
Take advantage of this human boat;
Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!
This vessel will be later hard to find.
The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep! — Shantideva
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. — Erin Morgenstern
The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels. — Kathryn Kuhlman
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use. — George Muller
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment. — Dave Allen
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound. — Johnny Rotten
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. — Rabindranath Tagore
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
Education is the kindling of a flame, not filling of a vessel.
Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel. — Eleanor Brown
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
The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us. — Learned Hand
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only. — Amos Bronson Alcott
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers — William Baldwin
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values. — Jerry Springer
God's Vessel Quotes
Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus. — A. B. Simpson
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. — Kanye West
I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. — Dag Hammarskjold
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace. — Mata Amritanandamayi
God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities. — Sri Aurobindo
Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world. — Floyd McClung
I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses. — Ne-Yo
Sailing Vessel Quotes
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. — Ramakrishna
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead. — Van Wyck Brooks
The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. — Voltaire
He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast. — Charles Dickens
The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars. — Oliver Goldsmith
It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French. — Fritz Sauckel
Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port. — Ezekiel Hopkins
I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry. — Garth Brooks
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven. — Dante Alighieri
Empty Vessels Quotes
Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give. — Merle Shain
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. — William Shakespeare
A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. — Lao Tzu
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over. — Paul J. Meyer
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden
Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power. — Chris Matthews
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy. — Anatol Rapoport
All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full. — Anne Lamott
Blood Vessels Quotes
Brain health depends on periods of high heart rate. Failing that, brain capillary health is compromised, and neurons are lost. 90% of our brain vasculature are tiny blood vessels - without exercise, they collapse, and neurons die. — Rhonda Patrick
Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqeur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel. — Bohumil Hrabal
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — J. G. Ballard
Lectins enter our joints, our nerve junctions, the lining of our blood vessels and our brain where they incite inflammation and autoimmune diseases. — Steven Gundry
Lets face it, you did steal me. But you saved my life too. And somewhere in the middle, you showed me a place so different and beautiful, I can never get it out of my mind. And I can't get you out of there either. You're stuck in my brain like my own blood vessels. — Lucy Christopher
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human being, so the agitations and passions of the soul are wrapped up in vanity: it is the soul's skin. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Roads are the blood vessels of the economy. — Jakaya Kikwete
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? — Tennessee Williams
Each killing steals a bit of humanity until a murderer is nothing more than an animal. A hunger replaces the spirit. A want for what was lost, but as with innocence, the soul can never be replaced. Joy, love, and peace flee such a vessel and in their stead blooms a desire for blood and death. — Michael J. Sullivan
I was age six or seven, and singing, "Jesus wants me for her son, beep, to shine for him," and people smiled and pinched my cheeks till the blood vessels broke, and I knew I was doing something right. — Al Jarreau
Vehicle Quotes
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. — Adi Shankara
I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk. — Shane Koyczan
A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine. — Steven Biko
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. — Thomas Jefferson
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle. — Alice Bailey
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. — Stephen Greenblatt
Roivant does not view - and has never viewed - Axovant as simply a vehicle for developing intepirdine, but instead as a platform for the development of high-impact drugs in dementia and the neuroscience field more generally. — Vivek Ramaswamy
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't. — John L. Phillips
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor. — James Joyce
The N.Y.C. tech scene is vibrant, and Betabeat will be a great vehicle to cover it in depth. — Jared Kushner
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
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him. — Huldrych Zwingli
O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead. — Walt Whitman
The biblical model is that God deliberately chooses imperfect vessels - those who have been wounded, those with physical or emotional limitations. Then he prepares them to serve and sends them out with their weakness still evident, so that his strength can be made perfect in that weakness. — Christine Caine
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. — Roald Amundsen
Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel. — Juana Inés de la Cruz
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! — Danny Kaye
That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style. — Lawrence Kasdan
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair
I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center. — Jean Shinoda Bolen
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. — John Dryden
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. — Thomas Gray
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army and calls it a war. — Noam Chomsky
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. — Rabindranath Tagore
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit. — Radclyffe Hall
A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death. — Kenwa Mabuni
Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vessel appointed to honor or dishonor, is determined by its' previous merits or demerits. Its' work in this world determines its' place in the world which is to follow this. — Origen
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. — Warren Buffett
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. — Anna Garlin Spencer
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions. — Imagawa Sadayo
Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
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