Quotes about Flow
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
— John Milton
The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifting the whole time and never realized it until we couldn't find our way back.
— Craig Groeschel
The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.
— John of the Cross
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.
— Robert Frost
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
— Margaret Atwood
The Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.
— Hildegard of Bingen
We steward the presence of God by learning to obey the commands "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 4:30) and "Do not quench the Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 5:19). We grieve Him when we do something wrong; we quench Him when we fail to do what is right, stopping the flow of His love and power that comes from the Father.
— Bill Johnson
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
— Philip Yancey
Nae man can tether time nor tide.
— John Bunyan
Rabbinic literature, though it includes plenty of material from before AD 135, tends to see everything in the light, not of a continuing story about God and Israel within the ongoing flow of world history, but of the much thinner, often dehistoricized world of Torah-piety.
— NT Wright
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
— Melody Carlson
The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.
— Genesis 2:13