Pastoral Resources

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Greatness is a spiritual condition.

We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.