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No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Eugene H. Peterson
Overflow, Lives Of Others
Eugene H. Peterson (1996). “Living the Message: Daily Reflections with Eugene H. Peterson”, Harper San Francisco

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

John Gray
Giving, Fullness, Overflow

An overflow of good converts to bad.

William Shakespeare
Overflow, Converting
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.156

Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers
Grace, Favors, Overflow
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.62, Discovery House

The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

William Blake
God, Fountain, Overflow
William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

Oswald Chambers
Devotion, Overflow, Filled
Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.3, Discovery House

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.

Constance Fenimore Woolson
Kindness, Home, Overflow
Constance Fenimore Woolson (2015). “Anne”, p.89, Sheba Blake Publishing

Tender pauses speak The overflow of gladness, When words are all too weak.

William C. Bryant
Speak, Weak, Overflow

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

Kim Hyesoon
Sorrow, Sometimes, Overflow
Source: www.guernicamag.com

Oftentimes I’ll just overflow, and then I’ll need to spend a week alone and not talk to anybody or call anybody.

Justin Vernon
Needs, Week, Overflow

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

Horace
Overflow, Bosoms, Superfluous
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Ars Poetica, 337, 1922.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Alphonse de Lamartine
Time, Ocean, Overflow
Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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