Quotes about Emptying

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

All the emptying out is only for the sake of a Great Outpouring. God, like nature, abhors all vacuums, and rushes to fill them.

Satan invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.

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

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

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.

You have to understand before you can respect, and you have to respect before you can fully love. This is a tremendously spiritually therapeutic process, an emptying of myself so I can grow more in my love for others.

The highest glory of the creature is in being only a vessel, to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be all. Water always fills first the lowest places. The lower, the emptier a man lies before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of the diving glory.

Relax, allow the mind to become empty, and surprise yourself with the great treasure that begins to flow from your soul.