Quotes about Fill
Think of yourself as a vessel. A cup. Don't try to guess what the Master will pour into you before he pours. Only pray it is the Master who pours. Then be willing to accept whatever message he wishes to fill you with. It's his to fill, Sherry. You only receive.
- Ted Dekker
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
- Saint Jerome
Do not seek to empty your cup as a way to avoid sin, but rather seek to fill it up with the Spirit of life, so there is no longer room for sin.
- John Owen
So we can go deeper than Mather's point. Behind God's commitment to reign as king is the deeper foundational commitment that his glory will one day fill the earth (Num. 14:21; Ps. 57:5; 72:19; Isa. 11:9; Hab. 2:14).
- John Piper
Labor, therefore, to fill your hearts with the cross of Christ . . . that there may be no room for sin.
- John Piper
It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
- John Quincy Adams
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.
- Scott Hahn
By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.
- Ernest Hemingway
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.
- Scott Hahn
Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.
- Wayne Dyer
If thou could'st empty all thyself of self Like to a shell dishabited Then might He find thee on the ocean shelf And say This is not dead and fill thee with Himself instead. But thou art all replete with very thou And hast such shrewd activity That when He comes He says This is enow Unto itself - 'twere better let it be It is so small and full there is no room for me.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Oh, that the Holy Spirit might be held in honor as a power to fill us with the very life and nature of God and of Christ!
- Andrew Murray