No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give to our community. You can give from overflow. It's very hard to give from emptiness. . . . People who avoid self-knowledge cause a great deal of pain to themselves as well as to their families and friends.
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
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.
Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.
The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
Oftentimes I’ll just overflow, and then I’ll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody.
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.
Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.
Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
