Quotes about Smallness
All of which is here recorded to the honour of that good Christian pair, representatives of hundreds of other good Christian pairs as conscientious and as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible humbugs.
- Charles Dickens
What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." LUKE 13:18—19
- Norman Vincent Peale
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
God's favor depends on His greatness, not our smallness. His great love, showered upon us ... a small life is lived by staring inward but a large one is lived by diving into God's love.
- Susan May Warren
That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
- Brother Lawrence
Muchas religiones han intentado hacer grandes estatuas de sus dioses, con la idea, supongo, de hacernos sentir pequeños a nosotros. Pero, si ése era su objetivo, ya pueden quedarse con sus mÃ
- Carl Sagan
Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Stop looking for Big. The magic happens when you stay small. Ninety-five dollars bought more than the secret to grief. It paid for the secret to life. Whatever we don't have isn't the missing piece. The moments we live for their own sake turn to moments of joy. Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.
- Melody Beattie
It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.
- Mother Angelica
Our salvation comes from something small, tender, and vulnerable, something hardly noticeable. The Lord, who is the creator of the universe, comes to us in smallness, weakness, and hiddenness.
- Henri Nouwen
The great temptation of our lives is to deny our role as chosen people and to allow ourselves to be trapped in the worries of our daily lives. Without the word that keeps lifting us up as God's chosen people, we remain, or become, small people, stuck in the complaints that emerge from our daily struggle to survive.
- Henri Nouwen
the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under
- George Eliot