Quotes about Capacity

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Man's brain may be compared to an electric battery. It is a well-known fact that a group of electric batteries will provide more energy than a single battery. It is also a well-known fact that an individual battery will provide energy in proportion to the number and capacity of the cells it contains.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

We must return from the desert like Jesus or St. John, with our capacity for feeling expanded and deepened, strengthened against the appeals of falsity, warned against temptation, great, noble and pure.

Faith is developed by meditating in God's Word and by acting on that Word. Meditating in the Word causes the capacity for faith to increase. By meditating in it and practicing it, the Word will produce the results of faith, love, healing, prosperity, wisdom and well-being in every area— spirit, soul and body.

Live with power and energy that undeniably transcends their natural capacities and with an intensity of commitment that far exceeds anything they have previously demonstrated in their lives

Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders.

He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.