Quotes about Smallness
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- Samuel Johnson
We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.
- Stephen Hawking
Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.
- Brother Lawrence
The Microbe is so very small you cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.
- Hilaire Belloc
it is God himself, the Lord and Creator of all things, who is so small here, who is hidden here in the corner, who enters into the plainness of the world, who meets us in the helplessness and defenselessness of a child, and wants to be with us.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
- Jesse Jackson
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room
- Robin Sharma
He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
- Anonymous
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
- Samuel Johnson
His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The God we've been presenting people with is just too small and too stingy for a big-hearted person to trust or to love back.
- Fr. Richard Rohr