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The great test of life is obedience to God. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Worship is just responding to the greatness of God. -- Bob Rice
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God. -- Brother Lawrence
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. -- Julia Ward Howe
The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God. -- John Piper
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. -- Paulo Coelho
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. -- Abu Bakr
Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe. -- Joan D. Chittister
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love. -- Timothy Keller
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. -- J. I. Packer
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. -- Rudolf Otto
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. -- William Wilberforce
A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor. -- Si Robertson
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself. -- John Piper
I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies. -- Sidney Lanier
Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us. -- Leonard Ravenhill
The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. -- Saint Augustine
I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy. -- Vera Farmiga
To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all. -- Adam Clarke
The virtue of Love is nothing and all, or that Nothing visible out of which All Things proceed. Its power is through All Things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as God. -- Jakob Bohme
The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries. -- John Bunyan
I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it. -- Jimmy Carter
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
What you are doing I cannot do, what I'm doing you cannot do, but together we are doing something beautiful for God, and this is the greatness of God's love for us-To give us the opportunity to become holy through the works of love that we do because holiness is not the luxury of the few. -- Mother Teresa
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. -- Bob Dylan
I believe [in God], and then there are times when I don't, because the nature of the universe tells me that I'm a fool to believe in something greater than myself. And then there are times when I'm absolutely in awe of the greatness of God, or whatever name you want to attach to whatever it is that's controlling our lives. -- Tom Fontana
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains. -- Charles Spurgeon
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. -- J. I. Packer
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
God can make greatness out of a great mess -- Joel Osteen
God is so great that the greatness precludes existence. -- Raimon Panikkar
Prayer is a recognition of the greatness of our God. -- Timothy Keller
We offend God because we do not know His greatness. -- Benedict Joseph Labre
We must seek to behold the greatness of our God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Open your eyes; you will see the greatness of God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
We see the greatness of God in times of great challenge. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience. -- John Stott
Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God. -- Mike Bickle
Life is always beautiful when we focus on the greatness of our God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself. -- Pope Benedict XVI
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
You are destiny for greatness. Arise and shine for the glory of God is upon you. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God. -- Radhanath Swami
The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service. -- John Wesley
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great. -- Walter Savage Landor
Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses. -- Euripides
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness. -- Timothy Keller
Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are"¦God is. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. -- John Ruskin
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? -- Chief Seattle
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love. -- Philip Neri
It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done. -- Brother Lawrence
We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us. -- Lou Holtz
Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it. -- Mae Jemison
The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made. -- David Jeremiah
Living to glorify God means doing everything... for Him, His way, to point to His greatness and to reflect His goodness. -- Joshua Harris
God loves me so that I might make himâ?? his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatnessâ??known among all nations. -- David Platt
God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it. -- Georges Bernanos
Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced. -- Tony Evans
Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God. -- Mary Baker Eddy
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. -- Spark Matsunaga
God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples. -- David Platt
Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you. -- Rick Warren
'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you. -- Oswald Chambers
God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular. -- Pearl S. Buck
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness -- David Platt

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