Quotes about Capacity

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.

The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

The heavens may speak of the glory of God, but only the lips of a child or a man or woman can speak His praise. When that praise is not coming, the destructive capacity is enormous, because the mind steals that which belongs to God and the sacred becomes profane.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

for the most part we can say that the disputes are about him yet don't involve him. He has shown a singular capacity to plant seeds that others nurture into disputes. (That is one complaint about him: his imprecisions invite others to reach conflicting interpretations of papal statements.)

A compassionate open home is part of Christian responsibility, and should be practiced up to the level of capacity.

We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.