Quotes about River

saying to the sixth angel with the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.

But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.

And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

The Platte River offered them a constant source of refreshing water

Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.

I gaze lovingly at Hilal a love that is reflected through time or what we imagine to be time, as in a mirror. She was never mine and never will be; that is how it is. We are both creators and creatures, but we are also puppets in God's hands, and there is a line we cannot cross, a line that was drawn for reasons we cannot know. We can approach and even dabble our toes in the river but we are forbidden to plunge in and let ourselves be carried along by the current.

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

There is so much good. So much grace. So much pouring into the river. A quiet water, this river of grace. Its work done in ways that do not seek attention. Yet it is there. Always there. A

Together, we travel the living river. We turn our faces to the sunlight and fly time and time again home to Kingdom Arcadia.