Quotes about Magnitude

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

an infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend.

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water'.

I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

Three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.

how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Nowhere does that moment become more real to me than in worship. That's when I realize in every fiber of my being that the Maker of heaven and earth has reached down to me, His servant. That's when I realize how unworthy and powerless I am to experience the magnitude of His sovereignty, power, and might in my own strength. But His grace is abundant toward me, each and every moment.

And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.

A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.