Littleness Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves. — Bertolt Brecht
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows… — Teresa of Avila
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. — Okakura Kakuzo
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children… — Caryll Houselander
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness. — Saint Francis de Sales
When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. — H.G. Wells
God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the… — Frederick Buechner
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down… — Mary MacLane
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. — Frances Cornford
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and… — J I Packer
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no… — Charlotte Bronte
To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all… — Thomas Aquinas
Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality. — Mooji
It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way.… — John Steinbeck
The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Babe, are therefore the only ones… — Fulton J. Sheen
Envy is littleness of soul. — William Hazlitt

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