Fountain Quotes - Page 6

• Our bodies look solid, but they arent. Were like a fountain. A fountain of water looks solid, but you can put your fingers right through it. Our bodies look like things, but theres no thingness to them.

  Li-Young Lee

  Water, Looks, Body

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• Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.

  John Owen

  Wise, Powerful, Self

  John Owen (1841). “A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit: Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations and Effects. Also the Nature and Necessity of Gospel Holiness, and the Difference Between Grace and Morality”, p.39

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• If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

  John Calvin

  Elements, Good Things, Fullness

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• Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

  Spike Lee

  Use, Vote, Human Nature

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• Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Paris, Fountain Head, Civilisation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2469, Manonmani Publishers

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• Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Spring, Rain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Birth Control, Earth, Problem

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• The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

  John Daniel

  Rivers, Rumor, Environmental

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Sensual, Together, Different

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Spring, Mind

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• Seek to be made holier every day; pray, strive, wrestle for the spirit, to make you like God. Be as much you can with God. I declare to you that I had rather be one hour with God than a thousand with the sweetest society on earth or in Heaven. All other joys are but streams; God is the fountain.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Inspirational, Joy, Heaven

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.179

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• The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Fabric, Empires

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.106, Cambridge University Press

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• No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Nymphs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1125, Library of Alexandria

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• Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the life and grace of the waters of salvation. It is not cleansing which men find there, but soiling; their sins are not washed away, but only added to. That being "born again" does not bring forth sons to God but to the Devil. Born of a lie, they cannot inherit the things which Truth has promised; begotten by the faithless, they are deprived of the grace of faith.

  Cyprian

  Lying, Son, Men

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• The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

  George Meredith

  War, Ego, Patriotism

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.4025, Library of Alexandria

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• All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Dark, Clouds

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• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Literature, Bitterness

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up.

  Samantha Hunt

  Thinking, Heartbreaking, Genius

  Source: therumpus.net

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• God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain

  Paul Washer

  Littles, Needs, Infinite

  Twitter post from Jun 13, 2009

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• It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Vortex, Prosperity

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.60

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• We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Education, Science, Ideas

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• But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.

  John Jewel

  Law, Forever, Heaven

  John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.290

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• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  Plutarch

  Kindness, Philosophical, Animal

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• Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Sexy, Lying

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs
  Show me those fleshy principalities;
  Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,
  Having a living fountain under it;
  Show me thy waist, then let me there withal,
  By the ascension of thy lawn, see all.

  Robert Herrick

  Sexy, Feet, Legs

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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