#great

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#greatness #self-consciousness #christian-living

Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#greatness #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#cosmic #cosmic rays #effects #great #interest

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#great #humanist #present #seen #slump

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#conflicts #device #eliminate #entire #found

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#eternity #every #faces #future #great

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#answers #beyond #clash #course #great

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #education #great #great service #indication

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#divinity #emulate #gift #great #greatest

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#character #every #great #great need #lead