#noble

I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who I am by taking the best version of themselves, projecting that to the nth degree, factoring in all the goodness they can perceive, which often isn't much, and then call that God. And while it may seem like a noble effort, the truth is that it falls pitifully short of who I really am. I'm not merely the best version of you that you can think of. I am far more than that, above and beyond all that you can ask or think. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#god #philosophy #theology #noble

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ↗

— Mark Twain

#how #noble #nobler #others #show

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#computer #criticize #dare #ennobled #expensive

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#deeds #ennoble #good #good actions #our

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#noble #treachery #tyranny

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

#ambition #art #beginning #century #considered

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. ↗

— William Weld

#government #never #noble #wrongs

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate