„Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.“
— J. Sidlow Baxter Australian theologian 1903 - 1999
Divine Healing of the Body (1979), p. 287.
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„By definition, if prose is a river, poetry is a fountain.“
— Michael Longley poet 1939
'Poetry Ireland Review' Summer 1999
„He touched his harp, and nations heard, entranced,
As some vast river of unfailing source,
Rapid, exhaustless, deep, his numbers flowed
And opened new fountains in the human heart.“
— Robert Pollok, livro The Course of Time
Book iv, line 684.
The Course of Time (published 1827)
„Venerable Svasti and the young buffalo boys were rivers that flowed from that source. Wherever the rivers flowed, the Buddha would be there.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
Old Path White Clouds : Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha (1991) Parallax Press ISBN 81-216-0675-6
„Insanity makes the rivers flow.“
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, livro Midnight Predator
Fonte: Midnight Predator
„The river of my title is a river of DNA, and it flows through time, not space. It is a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues.“
— Richard Dawkins English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author 1941
River out of Eden (1995)
„The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.“
— Quintus Curtius Rufus Roman historian
VII, 4, 13.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book VII
Original: (la) Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur.
„The sun is about to descend into the roseate waters of the Sacred River.“
— Anatole France, livro The Revolt of the Angels
Fonte: The Revolt of the Angels (1914), Ch. XXXV
Contexto: Zita told him of the black standards assembled in crowds in all the waste places of the globe; of the deliverance premeditated and prepared in the provinces of Heaven, where the first revolt had long ago been fomented.
"Prince," she went on, "your army awaits you. Come, lead it on to victory.""Friends," replied the great archangel, "I was aware of the object of your visit. Baskets of fruit and honeycombs await you under the shade of this mighty tree. The sun is about to descend into the roseate waters of the Sacred River. When you have eaten, you will slumber pleasantly in this garden, where the joys of the intellect and of the senses have reigned since the day when I drove hence the spirit of the old Demiurge. To-morrow I will give you my answer."
„Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.“
— Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943
„Time flows away like the water in the river.“
— Confucius Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551 - -479 a.C.
„A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.“
— Malcolm de Chazal Mauritian artist 1902 - 1981
Sens-plastique
„In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.“
— John Muir Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838 - 1914
"From Fort Independence to Yosemite", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 6 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated September 1875, published 15 September 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 113
1870s
„Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and forever!“
— Walter Scott Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771 - 1832
Canto III, stanza 16 (Coronach, stanza 3).
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)
„Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.“
— John Muir, livro Our National Parks
Fonte: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
„What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.“
— Ursula K. Le Guin, livro Four Ways to Forgiveness
"A Man of the People", p. 108
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
„The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.“
— Milan Kundera, livro A Insustentável Leveza do Ser
Fonte: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
„Women Are Not Roses
Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
Though rivers flow
women are not
rivers.
Women are not
roses
they are not oceans
or stars.
i would like to tell
her this but
i think she
already knows.“
— Ana Castillo novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer 1953
Fonte: Women Are Not Roses
„Time, flowing like a river
Time, beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea“
— Alan Parsons audio engineer, musician, and record producer from England 1948
"Time", from the album The Turn Of A Friendly Card. (Written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.)
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