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“If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.”

Ifs Speak Greatness Worship Determine Glorious Commandments Humbling

Author:John Stott

“Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live.”

World Needs Children Persons Speak Greatness Inspire One Day Our Children Plant Seeds Your Children Harvest Better Place Reap Better Person Places To Live Being A Better Person

Author:George Foreman

“It goes against the grain for me to do what so often happens, to speak inhumanly about the great as if a few millennia were an immense distance. I prefer to speak humanly about it, as if it happened yesterday, and let only the greatness itself be the distance.”

Ifs Happens Speak Happened Greatness Distance Yesterday Grain Immense

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.”

Love Humans Doe Age Dies Speak Kindness Greatness Goodness Incredibles Tiny Burning Torture Midst Warmth Sparks Dreamer Heroism Decay Odds Thread Martyrdom Savagery Quench Whimsical

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity. They show up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet. They show up with skin dark as old wood, or in scales made of rose petal, as a frail child, as a lime-yellow old woman, as a man who cannot speak, or as an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognize the greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”

People Thinking Inspirational Speak Greatness Dealing With People

Author:Francis Bacon

“Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.”

Mean Speak Greatness Silent Innocence Great Ones

Book:The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

“It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life, e.g., where one lives, the type of clothing one wears, the cars one drives, to the number of bodyguards that one employs to carry bags and open and close doors.”

Speak Numbers Doors Car Greatness Type Importance Bags Clothings Measurement Superficiality Bodyguard

Author:Haki R. Madhubuti

“Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

“My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.”

People May Art Spirit Speak Language Force Greatness Foundation Barriers Native American Continuing Nationality Aboriginal Transcending Language Barriers

Book:Norval Morrisseau: Return to the House of Invention

Source: Norval Morrisseau: Return to the House of Invention

“In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.”

States Past Found Speak United United States Movement Greatness Glory Capitalism Socialism Golden Socialist

Author:Elena Kagan

“Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.”

Men Action Speak Ability Common Acting Greatness Built Foundation Common Man

Author:Hafez

“When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift; but we also encounter the Passion, the Cross of Jesus and his Resurrection. Through this gaze of adoration, he draws us toward himself, within his mystery, through which he wants to transform us as he transformed the Host.”

Want Looks Passion Jesus Speak Mystery Creation Greatness Draws Crosses Encounters Host Transformed Resurrection Adoration Eucharist Holy Eucharist

Book:Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass

Source: Heart of the Christian Life: Thoughts on the Holy Mass

“In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.”

“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”

Thinking Speak Lord Greatness Modesty Boast Coke Lord Bacon

Author:William Shakespeare