All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean.
– Jonathan Edwards
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- God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His. – Elizabeth George
- When you are in love, an ocean of joy dances like the waves in an ocean. You are that ocean. – Debasish Mridha
- How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? – Jonathan Edwards
- All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good. – Jonathan Edwards
- When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help. – Jonathan Edwards
- god is similar to the relation of the water of ocean to the waves of the ocean the sole Reality of the waves is the Water. – Sushil Singh
- Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life. – Jonathan Edwards
- Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance. – Jonathan Edwards
- The work you have to do to accomplish your needs and desires is going to be a harder road than working on the needs and desires for someone else. – Kim Ha Campbell
- When is one considered to be in the awareness of -˜one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). – Dada Bhagwan
- The one who is worthy of worship by people has no desires. The one who is unworthy of worship has desires. – Dada Bhagwan
- Na, it’s not about the human desires; it’s about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel. – Saurabh Sharma
- The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism. – AE Samaan
- The holiness of God makes Him the possessor of all earthly wealth, which belongs to Him forever – Sunday Adelaja
- God is the possessor of all earthly riches – Sunday Adelaja
- When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom. – Lesslie Newbigin
- The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner. – Abhijit Naskar
- My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for this earthly sin. – Amit Abraham
- An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. – Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart. – Debasish Mridha
- We are like a drop of love, with crystal clear beauty, charm, joy and dance, like to vanish with the ocean of love to become the ocean – Debasish Mridha
- We may be just a drop in the ocean, but even the ocean envies the depth of our love. – Maria Elena
- We are born in the ocean of love and we love the ocean and her touch so much. – Debasish Mridha
- Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear. – Yogi Kanna
- Let me be an ocean and let me kiss you as many times as the ocean kisses the shore. – Debasish Mridha
- How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy? – Philip Roth
- Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You can’t create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt. – Mehmet Murat ildan
- What is GRACE? an individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! An elegance and divinity of one’s beauty! – Angie karan
- They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness. – Peadar Guiln
- Between the streams of probability & possibility, lies the timeless, spaceless realm where time gets created! – Vishwanath S J
- PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; – Walter Raleigh
- It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding. – Markus Zusak
- What is GRACE?An individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! – Angie karan
- Wealth comes from multiple incomes. Always think of growth and new businesses to create new income streams. – Ehab Atalla
- Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on. – Israelmore Ayivor
- … the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began… – John Geddes
- Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst. – Orrin Woodward
- lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say – Matt Taibbi