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One thought fills immensity. -- William Blake
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. -- Honore de Balzac
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent. -- Todd Gitlin
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. -- Norman Mailer
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God. -- Desmond Tutu
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. -- Paracelsus
Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. -- H. G. Wells
Intensity builds immensity -- Kevin Levrone
Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen. -- John Bertram Phillips
If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven. -- Jaggi Vasudev
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. -- Carl Sagan
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. -- Carl Sagan
I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me. -- Pat Conroy
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space. -- John Joly
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. -- Harold Brodkey
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. -- Boris Pasternak
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second. -- Thomas Malthus
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. -- Ann Druyan
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. -- Stephen Jay Gould
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. -- Nikolai Gogol
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt -- Immanuel Kant
Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity. -- Wernher von Braun
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose. -- Jacques Monod
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected. -- Virginia Woolf
Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists. -- Samuel Johnson
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe. -- Guglielmo Marconi
One thought fills an immensity. -- Jaume Plensa
The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea. -- Kevin Brockmeier
The heart knows the immensity it wants to achieve, but it is limited. -- Nadia Scrieva
The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship, -- John Piper
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad... -- Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity -- Mina Loy
Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another? -- Susan Abulhawa
The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man's ignorance. -- Charles Darwin
Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space. -- Giordano Bruno
Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. -- Robert T. Bakker
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible -- Italo Calvino
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. -- Joseph Conrad
Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness. -- Mason Cooley
The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ. -- Matt Chandler
Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet. -- James Dwight Dana
Man finally knows that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the Universe, from which he emerged by accident. -- Jacques Monod
Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets, -- Carolyn Porco
I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment. -- Hark Herald Sarmiento
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses. -- Martin Gardner
O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light. -- Jaggi Vasudev
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. -- Victor Hugo
How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself? -- Rajneesh
Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God. -- Frederick Lenz
Advanced meditation is facing the immensity of eternity, embracing that which terrifies you and frightens you and loving it because it's God. You are God. -- Frederick Lenz
Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts. -- Alistair Begg
I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity. -- Carl Sagan
The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity. -- Brigham Young
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man. -- Sam Harris
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God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it. -- John H. Groberg
When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches. -- Meister Eckhart
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos] -- Carl Sagan
What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world? -- Marina Tsvetaeva
[I feel] engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me. -- Blaise Pascal
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees. -- Czeslaw Milosz
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea -- Bernard Moitessier
The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion. -- Giordano Bruno
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.' -- Charles Dickens
However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond. -- William George Armstrong
But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars. -- Dean Koontz

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