Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...
You lose yourself, Erica, because with the right person, who you become together is something so much greater, more than you could even realize right now.
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
After all, trust is greater than love, and to truly trust another human-being is rare. Love can exist without trust, but trust cannot exist without love.
Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves.
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.
When the intensity it takes to extricate one from a negative state is equal to or greater than the intensity that perpetuated the state, then the person can be freed of that state
There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion.
Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being; your purpose awaits your arrival.
We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.
In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.
Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!
Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.
What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
