Quotes about Measure

Whereas the intelligence of God is both the cause and the measure of the truth of things, things are both the cause and the measure of the truth of our intelligence.

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

All that the Lord thy God commands thee to do, that do thou to the Lord thy God: add nothing to it, diminish nothing from it.' By this rule, think I, the Kirk of Christ will measure God's religion, and not by that which seems good in their own eyes.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof?" (Job 38:4-6). How completely is the pride of man laid in the dust!

Expenditure—like ugliness and errors—becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

Alas, that we should love by measure and weight, and not rather have floods and feasts of Christ's love! O, that Christ would break down the old narrow vessels of these narrow and ebb souls, and make fair, deep, wide, and broad souls, to hold a sea and a full tide, flowing over all its banks of Christ's love.

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate . our deepest fear that we are powerful beyond measure . we ask ourselves: who i am to be brilliant,gorgeous,talented and fabulous ? actually who you are not to be?

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.