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Quotes About Magnifying

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.
~ Gustaf Skarsgard
The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.
~ Jon Stewart
Passion adds eyes; is a magnifying glass. Sonnets of lovers are mad enough, but are valuable to the philosopher, as are prayers of saints, for their potent symbolism.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have serious medical support when Im filming 'Grantchester'. Theyre super-cautious with me - and all I do is lift a blooming magnifying glass.
~ Robson Green
if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.
~ David Brooks
crouching on his hands and knees, peering through a magnifying glass and pointing out sites where UFOs were going to land.
~ David Buckley
We sing inspirational songs, songs of praise and worship, and about how good and how big God is. We are magnifying the Lord.
~ Fred Hammond
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
~ Samuel Johnson
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
~ Oscar Nunez
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
This is how I feel about horror films: there's enough scary things that happen in day-to-day life. Sometimes just going and getting the mail is scary, when you open your bills. And so, sometimes I feel like scary movies are just tapping into those anxieties and magnifying them.
~ Josh Hamilton
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.
~ Gore Verbinski
Aha!" He said. "You've found it?" Fia gasped. Larna looked up so fast she nearly dropped her book. "No." He tapped his finger on a rune. "But this rune matches, here." "Oh, goodness." Larna's sturdy frame seemed to droop a little. "Yes, it does." He passed the magnifying glass over the two texts. "Hmm… hmm. Yes, yes indeed. This word is definitely 'the'.
~ E. Kaiser Writes
The commonplace may be understood as a reduction of the exceptional, but the exceptional cannot be understood by magnifying the commonplace.
~ Edgar Wind
As our love does not start with Mary, so neither does it stop with Mary. Mary is a window through which our humanity first catches a glimpse of Divinity on earth. Or perhaps she is more like a magnifying glass; she intensifies our love of her Son and makes our prayers more bright and burning.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
~ Jack Kevorkian
Christ is the grand center of all the divine counsels, and the magnifying of Him is their principal design. Had God kept Adam from sinning, all his race would have been eternally happy. But in that case Adam would have been their savior and benefactor, and all his seed would have gloried in him, ascribing their everlasting blessedness to his obedience. But such an honor was far too much for any finite creature to bear. Only the Lord from heaven was worthy of it.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Too much magnifying of man or matter, doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn.
~ bacon francis xix
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
~ Samuel Johnson
These souls, saith love, live of knowing of love and of hearing. This is [the] continual usage of these souls without departing them [therefrom]: for knowing and love and magnifying dwelleth in them. These souls, that be such, cannot find the good nor the evil, nor have knowing of themselves to make judgement whether they be converted or perverted.
~ Marguerite Porete
We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.
~ John Piper
Honoring Christ, magnifying Christ, making much of Christ. That was the meaning of Paul's life. It should be the meaning of ours. And Paul prays it will be the meaning of his death as well. We live and we die to make much of Christ.
~ John Piper
The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.
~ John Piper