#fullness

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#been #days #death #elderly #experience

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#fullness #god #great #great thing #greater

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time. ↗

— Mother Jones

#cauldron #does #forth #fullness #hearts

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts. ↗

— Henry Norris Russell

#anything #assurance #earth #fullness #god

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#any #become #being #could #die

I've lived a full life. I never once went hungry. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #hunger #life #funny

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. ↗

— Alice Walker

#adds #allow #any #case #experience

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#also #days #distress #fullness #joy

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real. ↗

— Amy Grant

#black #color #create #depth #everything

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. ↗

— William Hall

#each #expected #fullness #happiness #health