Quotes about Scale
how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
God does not measure everything by numbers or dimensions. He has another scale of values, according to which-asJesus Himself told us-one human soul is worth more than the entire universe.
— Derek Prince
Geological time is not money.
— Mark Twain
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
— Paul Ricoeur
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
— St. Augustine
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
— Corrie Ten Boom
My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.
— Jim Bakker
Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Evolution itself is an "order" that requires explanation if any order does, and it presupposes, as we have just seen, a vast scale of order and existence within which alone it can occur. Whether evolution occurs with regard to plant and animal species (which was Darwin's concern), that has no serious implications at all, taken by itself, for the existence of God.
— Dallas Willard
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has a grander view?
— Victor Hugo
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
— Philip Yancey