Quotes about Comparison
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
— Mark Twain
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
— Henry David Thoreau
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
— Jonah Hill
God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.
— Beth Moore
You say we worship the sun; so do you.
— Tertullian
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
— Tertullian
How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.
— Thomas a Kempis
If thou hast any good, believe that others have more, and so thou mayest preserve thy humility. It is no harm to thee if thou place thyself below all others; but it is great harm if thou place thyself above even one. Peace is ever with the humble man, but in the heart of the proud there is envy and continual wrath.
— Thomas a Kempis
Truly all human glory, all temporal honour, all worldly exultation, compared to Thy eternal glory, is but vanity and folly.
— Thomas a Kempis
Satisfaction = what you have ÷ what you want
— St. Thomas Aquinas
If the Moral Law doesn't exist, then there's no moral difference between the behavior of Mother Teresa and that of Hitler.
— Norman Geisler