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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.
Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.
In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
I'm paving the road for other women and men who know they're destined for greatness, but they don't believe it yet.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Our greatness, our talent has never been the question. It's been a matter of grappling for control over what we do.
Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow.
Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?
With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.
Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator.
those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.
Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
I kind of feel like God took away Metro Station and the greatness there so I could settle down and have my love life.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.
By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.
God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.
The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.
I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
You can only be great at the big things by being great at the little things. Do something little with greatness today.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.