A completely dead human soul, deprived of its natural work, is like muddy and stinking water, confined in a tight space.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Water without fish, air without birds, time without people cannot exist.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
O turn unto your rest! Turn to Him in whom are hid all the treasures of happiness! Turn unto him who giveth liberally unto all men; and he will give you to drink of the water of life freely.
—John Wesley
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.
—John Owen
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
—Franz Kafka
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
—Laozi
Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear?
—Laozi
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“There is no fear of our not being watered when Jesus undertakes to do it. He will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.”
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
—Sun Tzu
What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?
—Seneca
Water is the driving force in nature.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
O turn unto your rest! Turn to Him in whom are hid all the treasures of happiness! Turn unto him who giveth liberally unto all men; and he will give you to drink of the water of life freely.
—John Wesley
He will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
—William Wilberforce
I will press forward. Let him that is athirst come. Whoever will, let him take of the water of life *freely*. Even so Lord Jesus. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
If you wish to possess love for God’s Word, study it diligently and so become like an artesian well – overflowing with the water of life to refresh thirsty souls.
—D. L. Moody
When an eagle is happy in an iron cage,
when a sheep is happy in water,
when an owl is happy in the blaze of the noonday sun,
when a fish is happy on dry land;
then, and not till then, will I admit that
an unholy man could be happy in Heaven.
J.C. Ryle
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
—Sigmund Freud
Try the rough water as well as the smooth. Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Come to him who is ‘as rivers of water in a dry place.’
—Jonathan Edwards
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
—Nikolai Gogol