“Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.” PeopleIfsMatterPastGrowsStuffWaterIssuesAliveGreatnessDivineLike YouGardenSeasonsBonesConcreteHarvestDead PeoplePlaying Around Author:T. D. Jakes
“No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]” MenInspirationGreatnessDivineDivine InspirationNemo Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Wherefore, as I have said to you, I, God, have become man, and man has become God by the union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This greatness is given in general to all rational creatures, but, among these I have especially chosen My ministers for the sake of your salvation, so that, through them, the Blood of the humble and immaculate Lamb, My only-begotten Son, may be administered to you.” MenHumansMaySaidGivenBloodHuman NatureGreatnessDivineSonCreaturesSalvationUnionsSakeHumbleChosenRationalMinistersLambsDivine NatureImmaculate Author:St. Catherine of Siena
“Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.” MenMindSoulFeelingsGovernmentFallSinAnimalPowerfulPrinciplesGreatnessDivineCreaturesFellowsNobleSelfishSelfishnessWelfareDimensionsPrimitiveDivine LoveRetiredForsakenSmallness Author:Jonathan Edwards
“As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion.” WantCountryCausesGreatnessProduceDivineInstitutionsRuinsRepublicDisregardObservance Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.” SoulGreatnessDivineAriseGentlenessInfirmityDivine WisdomClemency Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.” MenFirstsBelieveMeanFeelingsI BelieveDoubtGreatnessHumilityDivineTestsCuriousGreat MenReally GreatMerciful Author:John Ruskin
“There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?” IfsKnowsTryingGreatnessDivineCapableSparks Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life.” WantBelieveI CanMomentsLightJoyPerfectGreatnessDivineConsequenceGainsAvailableInsightSupremeAdmireThis LifeContemplationAttributesAdoreBoundlessPonderingExaminingInvestigatingClouded Author:Rene Descartes
“Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.” TryingHumansDoeHas BeensFactsTodayLife IsGrowsGreatnessDivineAimIncomeBeing TrueHuman LifeWelfareContributionCombatControversyOverflow Author:William Jennings Bryan
“I come, O Lord, unto Thy sanctuary to see the life and food of my soul. As I hope in Thee, O Lord, inspire me with that confidence which brings me to Thy holy mountain. Permit me, Divine Jesus, to come closer to Thee, that my whole soul may do homage to the greatness of Thy majesty; that my heart, with its tenderest affections, may acknowledge Thine infinite love; that my memory may dwell on the admirable mysteries here renewed every day, and that the sacrifice of my whole being may accompany Thine.” HeartMaySoulWholeJesusMemoriesLordSacrificeMysteryGreatnessInspireDivineMy HeartHolyMountainInfiniteAffectionMy SoulTheeAcknowledgePermitSacramentsMajestyAdmirableSanctuaryAccompanyHomageInfinite Love Author:Clare of Assisi
“Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack of an agenda is the greatest power. Sometimes it is better not to think in terms of plans; here months may mean nothing, and also years. Truth must be sought for its own sake, its holy, divine greatness.” ThinkingYearsMayMeanSometimesTermPlansEffectsGreatnessDivineMonthsHolyTruth IsAimSakeAgendasHaving Patience Author:Romano Guardini
“I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.” PeopleRealEnoughWholeHandsEyeLostFeltMy OwnBusinessMillionsGroupsSeaGreatnessDivineLuckyShadowSuicideDollarsRingsFinanceUrgesSensationsCrashMillion DollarsHysteriaWithout HopeCanyonsAmbulanceFaintingMarket CrashHope DeathStock Market Crash Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.” PersonsReasonUseTodayChristianChurchStreetsGreatnessDivineWorshipInstinctReason WhyMajestyVery PowerfulGreatness Of God Author:J. I. Packer
“Humility: The realization of our dependence on God. I have always had strong feelings about that word regardless of what anyone's background might be. One of the common denominators of greatness is acknowledging that dependence. As power comes from Charity, power also comes from knowing who you are, a divine offspring of a divine being.” FeelingsMightSuccessStrongPeaceCommonKnowingGreatnessHumilityDivineWho You AreCharityBackgroundsRealizationDependenceOffspringCommon DenominatorStrong FeelingKnowing Who You AreDependence On God Author:Hyrum W. Smith
“Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.” GivingHumansWould BeValuesSimpleGreatnessDivineOrdinarySittingEvidenceRedemptionServingNeglectMiraculousDaydreamingReferringSitting Around Book:My Utmost for His Highest Source: My Utmost for His Highest