Quotes about Measure
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
- Walt Whitman
We shall do well to remember that, when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.
- JC Ryle
God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well- being. Only He is equipped to provide that. His perfectly stable, unshifting, unconditional love is the only real measure of my worthiness.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I pray that you … grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ … that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (EPHESIANS 3:17 — 19)
- Lysa TerKeurst
In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.
- St. Cyprian
The measure of a man's truth is the measure of his love, and Truth is far removed from him whose life is not governed by Love.
- James Allen
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
- Myles Munroe
Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?
- Virginia Woolf
We make the Holy Scriptures the rule and measure of every tenet; we necessarily fix our eyes upon that, and approve that alone which may be made to harmonize with the intention of those writings.
- Gregory of Nyssa
Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?
- Og Mandino
The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.
- Cormac McCarthy
Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.
- Walt Whitman