Quotes about Greatness

I bow to Jesus in gratitude, and I say, 'Oh Lord, you are great.' It touches me, and it lifts me up because I am hungry for more.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

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.

To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

If the Holy Spirit takes over your family, your business or your health, it doesn't matter what troubles you've been experiencing or what's been going wrong, you will begin to go from strength to strength, from grace to grace, from faith to faith, from success to success and from greatness to greatness. When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

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