Quotes About Enlargement

The world is much bigger than you thought

When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.

I'm just expanding my sound and making it bigger.

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself. -Mother Teresa

Nunca olvidaré cómo me impresionó, a mí y a toda la sala por cierto, el primer travelling que vi. En la pantalla, una cara avanzaba hacia nosotros, cada vez más grande, como si fuera a tragársenos.

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before? What answer would my father give?

In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone.

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

When God's judgment is avoided, God also flees, but when it is received, He, too, becomes near. For "in trouble You have enlarged for me" (Ps. 4:1), and "a Help in the troubles that have come upon us" (Ps. 46:1). And Ps. 9:9, "A Helper in due time in tribulation." And there is no lie in this, but it becomes a lie, if you flee from God's judgment.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

But after a frustrated Franklin Roosevelt threatened to enlarge the high bench and pack it with his partisans, Justice Owen Roberts, in the infamous switch in time that saved nine, stopped finding New Deal legislation unconstitutional, so that 5–4 decisions against FDR became majority decisions allowing his schemes.

What makes one tool superior to another has nothing to do with how new it is. What matters is how it enlarges or diminishes us, how, how it shapes our experience of nature and culture and one another. To cede choices about the texture of our daily lives to a grand abstraction called progress is folly.

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zionís nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!