Quotes about Breadth
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tzu-chang asked Master K'ung about Goodness. Master K'ung said, He who could put the Five into practice everywhere under Heaven would be Good. Tzu-chang begged to hear what these were. The Master said, Courtesy, breadth, good faith, diligence, and clemency.
- Confucius
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.
- Paul Washer
Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.
- George Eliot
We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.
- John Ortberg
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.
- Mike Posner
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
That is true for both liberals and conservatives: the liberals deny the vertical arm of the cross (transcendence and tradition); the conservatives deny the horizontal (breadth and inclusivity).
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Any kind of authentic God experience will usually feel like love or suffering, or both. It will connect you to Full Reality at ever-new breadths, and depths "until God will be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28).
- Fr. Richard Rohr