Quotes about Comparison
We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
— John Lennon
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.
— AW Pink
There is a greater difference between the genuine Christian and the deceived professing Christian than there is between a living man and a corpse. None need remain in doubt if they will honestly measure themselves by the Holy Word of God.
— AW Pink
Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
— Ayn Rand
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
— George Bernard Shaw
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
— George Bernard Shaw
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
— George Eliot
but, dear me! has it not by this time ceased to be remarkable--is it not rather that we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
— George Eliot
the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under
— George Eliot
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes;
— George Eliot
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
— Mahatma Gandhi