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"Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 518, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity." »Clarence Cramer
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"The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Hell is a half-filled auditorium." »Robert Frost
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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." »Plutarch
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"The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still." »George Seaton Bowes
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"“A life by choice is one that is filled with love, happiness, and an appreciation of each day."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God." »John Bunyan
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"Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it." »Arabic Proverb
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"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears." »Rene Descartes
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"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled." »Henry David Thoreau
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"As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled." »Shakti Gawain
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"By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue." »The Hitopadesa
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"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended." »Plato
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"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it." »Hermann Hesse
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"Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled." »The Hitopadesa
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"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"The happiest people I know are the ones who have learned how to hold everything loosely and have given the worrisome, stress-filled, fearful details of their lives into God's keeping." »Charles R. Swindoll
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"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment." »Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
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"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive." »Thomas Arnold Bennett
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"I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces." »Harold Ross
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""It seems to be a universal law; to the degree you give up your attachment to the material world, to the same degree you are filled with the joys of spirit."" »Harry Kovair
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"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." »George Eliot
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"Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin." »Tommy Boy
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"Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection." »Swordfish
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"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle." »Albert Einstein
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"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." »Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." »Dee Hock
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"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose." »James Earl Jones
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." »Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you." »Agatha Christie
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