Quotes about Greatness

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Schopenhauer had said it years ago: "Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

Despite what you've been told, you matter and you can accomplish something great.

The material universe is both an essential display of the greatness and goodness of God and the arena of the eternal life of finite spirits, including the human.

In worship we are ascribing greatness, goodness, and glory to God.

God is great enough that he can conduct his affairs in this way. His nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate. And if he chooses to deal with humanity in such a way that he will occasionally think it appropriate, that is just fine.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.