Quotes about Capacity

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

Thus, though it is not every creature that can be blessed (for beasts, trees, stones, and things of that kind have not this capacity), yet that creature which has the capacity cannot be blessed of itself, since it is created out of nothing, but only by Him by whom it has been created. For it is blessed by the possession of that whose loss makes it miserable. He, then, who is blessed not in another, but in himself, cannot be miserable, because he cannot lose himself.

Then, again, there are three things which every artificer must possess if he is to effect anything,—nature, education, practice. Nature is to be judged by capacity, education by knowledge, practice by its fruit.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

With all the additional electricity we'll be using, and assuming that wind and solar play a significant role, completely decarbonizing America's power grid by 2050 will require adding around 75 gigawatts of capacity every year for the next 30 years.

How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?

A shriveled humanity has a shrunken capacity for receiving the rays of God's love.

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

Let no one think he can be totally indifferent to God in this life and suddenly develop a capacity for Him at the moment of death.

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.