Quotes About Capacity

Who knows what any man can do?

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.

God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers

God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

Never forget that our capacity and capability in spiritual matters is measured by, and based on, the promises of God.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

One of the most sensitive expressions of hope, capacity for change and potential vehicles for institutional health that I have read in my career in criminal justice.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.