“Oh feeble child of God, the Lord taketh care of you! Your heavenly Father feedeth ravens, and guides the flight of sparrows: should he not much more care for you, oh ye of little faith?”
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
—Charlie Chaplin
Life can be wonderful if you’re not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination … and a little dough.
—Charlie Chaplin
“It is quite right that you should think little of yourself: perhaps to droop your head is a part of your beauty: many flowers had not been half so lovely if they had not practised the art of hanging their heads.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We think too much and feel too little.
—Charlie Chaplin
If this little crumb of life is all you have, then make sure you do all you can with it. Sa’id ibn Khaled
—Leo Tolstoy
It’s through the little sins that Satan gains an entrance into our lives.
—J. Gresham Machen
Surely when we see our Lord Jesus we shall not ask Him to forgive us for our foolish over-caring, but rather that we cared so little, cared so coldly that souls are perishing for whom He died.
—Amy Carmichael
Opening our windows toward Jerusalem,
And looking thitherward, we see
First Bethlehem
Then Nazareth and Galilee,
And afterwards, Gethsemane;
And then the little hill called Calvary.
—Amy Carmichael
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
—Mark Twain
How astonishingly little do we know of God!—How small a part of his nature do we know of his essential attributes!
—John Wesley
O God, how little do I deserve all ye honour thou puttest upon me, but may I be more active in thy service and live more by faith, doing all to the glory of God, and in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through him.
—William Wilberforce
O what mercies have we to be thankful for, yet how little are we conscious and affectingly and habitually sensible of them.
—William Wilberforce
How little have I done for God since I devoted myself to him. I fly for pardon to the mercy of God in Christ.
—William Wilberforce
In the evening I was grieved that I had done so little for God. Oh that I could be a flame of fire in the service of my God!
—David Brainerd
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
—Isaac Newton
Was grieved that I could do so little for God before my bodily strength failed.
—David Brainerd
The engagements of men’s hearts to God in duties will tell them what they are. The hypocrite takes little heed to his heart. They are not afflicted really for the hardness, deadness, unbelief, and wanderings of their hearts in duty as upright ones are.
—John Flavel
Happy is the Christian that has a little band of friends that meet together regularly for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
There are some of us who set much store by our morality, our culture, and our refinement; but if we knew how little we weighed in the balances of the eternal and all holy God, we would fall on our knees and cry, “God be merciful to me, a sinner!”
—R. A. Torrey
God takes up little things, and although they seem small in our sight, they are mighty when He is in them.
—D. L. Moody
I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness.
One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.
—Sigmund Freud
Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument.
Augustine
Very little is required to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is not necessary to anyone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
—William Shakespeare
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
—Charles Darwin
Just as all the water will flow out of a barrel if there’s so much as one little hole in it, so all the joy of love will drain out of your soul if in your soul there is enmity toward so much as a single person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
—Blaise Pascal