Quotes about Measure

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

Furthermore, even a deep, penetrating sense of our sinfulness does not do justice to the reality of our predicament. Our need is not to be measured by our own sense of need, but by what God had to do to meet that need.

The church is not here to win. Just the opposite. By every human measure, our Savior lost. On purpose. With a purpose.

The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.

Nothing of spiritual significance comes without sacrifice. Your spirituality will always be measured by the size of your sacrifice.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

hat a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe—why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.