River Quotes

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Love is the river that rushes by too quickly, even as you are learning how to swim.

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.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

A frozen river is not a dry one, it’s just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.

I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.