Quotes About Greater

There are truths greater than our own wishes.

few religions in the history of the human race have shown a greater penchant for conflict than the religion founded on the teachings of Jesus

The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.

Decius A style like this becomes a conqueror. Cato Decius, a style like this becomes a Roman. Decius What is a Roman, that is Caesar's foe? 40 Cato Greater than Caesar: he's a friend to virtue.

'Despacito' is phenomenal; you can't really chase that type of success. I'm a huge fan of the record, the original, and then when the remix came out, I said, 'Oh my God, it just got greater!'

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

Now that he is gone and the spell is broken, the actual fear is greater. Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

the totalitarian hell proves only that the power of man is greater than they ever dared to think, and that man can realize hellish fantasies without making the sky fall or the earth open.

Some think they are seeking their own soul's truth but the greater Soul is thinking and seeking through them

The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.

the sum of unhappiness is always greater than the parts

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Thus, reflected Poirot, did some reassurances cause greater alarm than the original remark upon which they sought to improve.

Truth is not a matter of fact but a state of harmony with progress and hope. Enveloped only in its wings will we ever soar to the promise of our greater selves.

Survival is a passive way of saying "my needs are greater than yours.

But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

Just as it is greater to illuminate than merely to shine, so too it is greater to give to others what one has contemplated than merely to contemplate. St. Thomas Aquinas, from Summa Theologiae

spirituality—the belief in connection, a power greater than self, and interconnections grounded in love and compassion

John Henry Newman views the visible world as a veil "so that all that exists or happens visibly, conceals and yet suggests, and above all serves, a greater system of persons, facts and events beyond itself."3

Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful.