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God has sovereignly pulled back the curtain on His glory. He has disclosed Himself on the platform of both creation and redemption that we might stand awestruck in His presence, beholding the sweet symmetry of His attributes, pondering the unfathomable depths of His greatness, baffled by the wisdom of His deeds and the limitless extent of His goodness. This is His beauty.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

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.

God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

God loves me so that I might make him— his ways, his salvation, his glory, and his greatness—known among all nations.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Great men are sincere.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.

Greatness is never achieved through indecision.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.