Quotes about Magnitude

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

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.

The claim advanced in Christianity is of that magnitude: Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation. Now

The more you understand the magnitude of God's grace, the more accurate will be your view of the depth of your unrighteousness; and the more you understand the depth of your unrighteousness, the more you will appreciate the magnitude of God's gift of grace.

So your hope in life and death is never to be found in the degree of your love for God. It is only ever found in the magnitude of his love for you. This love is yours as a gift of his grace even on those days where your heart has run after other lovers. That's just how beautiful and faithful his love for you really is.

Their measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

More than five billion

More than five billion

"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.