A Quote by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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December 13, 1815 - July 18, 1881

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

George Bernard Shaw

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Wendell Phillips

In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.

David Swing

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

Hudson Taylor

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

H. G. Wells

True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.

Charlie Peacock

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

Okakura Kakuzo

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

Saint Francis de Sales

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

Kenneth Patchen

True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.

Billy Graham

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Simone Weil

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 possible but rarely for the impossible.

Frederick Buechner

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