Smallness Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some… — Phillips Brooks
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the… — Jim Cymbala
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. — William Cobbett
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the… — Guglielmo Marconi
The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful English word-grateful. If… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Those who understand the cross increasingly see their sin as God does, and therefore begin to feelabout sin as does God. We begin to mourn… — William F. Farley
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost… — Mark Twain
I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern… — Jacques Vallee
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge… — Annie Dillard
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. — Anaxagoras
No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness. — Pope Francis
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a… — Chris Hedges
It's the abject smallness of the earth that gets you. — Stuart Roosa
Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated.Â Suppose the fight was fixed.Â Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your… — Peter Kreeft
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when… — Galileo Galilei
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you so much protection,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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