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Quotes about Expansion

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
- Frederick Buechner
Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.
- Brennan Manning
Instead of expanding our capacity for life, joy, and mystery, religion often contracts it. As systematic theology advances, the sense of wonder declines. The paradoxes, contradictions, and ambiguities of life are codified, cabined, and confined within the pages of a leather-bound book. Instead of a love story the Bible is viewed as a detailed manual of directions.
- Brennan Manning
Those you have deeply loved become part of you. The longer you live, there will always be more people to be loved by you and to become part of your inner community. The wider your inner community becomes, the more easily you will recognize your own brothers and sisters in the strangers around you.
- Henri Nouwen
I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. Within a few years we have witnessed the phenomenon of a southeastward migration, in the settlement of Australia; but this affects us as a retrograde movement, and, judging from the moral and physical character of the first generation of Australians, has not yet proved a successful experiment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
- Herman Melville
I've chosen to GROW, to EXPAND, to INCREASE and to become RICHER - because i want to BLESS the world more.
- Bo Sanchez
God wants to do immeasurably more in & through your life than you could ask.
- Louie Giglio
Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly—to fully know and be fully known by another—we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.
- Arianna Huffington
In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.
- Niki Lauda
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God's law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen