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- The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real… — Phillips Brooks
- Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness… — 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… — 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… — Guglielmo Marconi
- The purpose of life is to be beautiful, to be bountiful, to be blissful, to be graceful and grateful. What a wonderful… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than… — Jacques Vallee
- It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we… — Annie Dillard
- All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite. — Anaxagoras