Top 1200 Greatness Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

I think it's important, no matter your profession, to never become complacent and always strive for greatness.

The greatest lesson I've learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.

We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.

True greatness is devoting all my energy to becoming a servant and not getting upset when I am treated like one.

Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I think greatness is found within mundanity, those boring little ticks throughout the day.

A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.

A season is not made in a week or two any more than a stellar game epitomizes greatness.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put in its place a new message: There's nothing in the universe that isn't God. And God, and the energy which is God, is found in everything, including money. It isn't like God is everywhere except in your billfold. In fact, God is everywhere.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no greater than those around you.

Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.