Empty Vessels Quotes

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

The Christian is more than an empty vessel. He has...Someone within. We have a treasure in the earthen vessel, and not only a treasure - a transcendent power! That is humanity as God intended it to be. The vessel is not much in itself, but it holds an inestimable treasure, beyond price, and a transcendent power, greater than any other power known to men.

All that glitters is not gold.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light.

Use me then, my Saviour for whatever purpose and whatever way thou mayest require. Here is my poor heart, and empty vessel; fill it with Thy Grace.

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

Empty vessels make the most sound.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.