Quotes about Insignificance

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Odat? cu nenorocirea, vine È™i o uÈ™urare, o înseninare: porÈ›iuni vaste ale vieÈ›ii tale sunt date la o parte, devin dintr-odat? neînsemnate.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Suppose God wants to teach you to say, "I know how to be abased"--are you ready to be offered up like that? Are you ready to be not so much as a drop in a bucket--to be so hopelessly insignificant that you are never thought of again in connection with the life you served? Are you willing to spend and be spent; not seeking to be ministered unto, but to minister?

Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1—17.

regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog? A flea?

how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.