Quotes about Insignificance

Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee.

When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, seta against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.

When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this—and out of nothing—can still count the hairs of my head.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

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.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

We can feel unworthy that the King of kings attends to such seemingly insignificant details in our lives. Read Matthew 6:25—34. As you think about your last week, thank Jesus for all the needs that He has met.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

What makes a bit of ground holy? It is when and where God shows up. He can do this anywhere at any time. This means that the most insignificant place can be declared holy when God moves in. It can come when you least expect it.