“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) Americna minister

Book II, Chapter XV.
Crowds (1913)

“When he drapes himself in silence, as God himself dwells in a great silence, man is close to heaven, or, rather, he allows God to manifest himself in him.”

Robert Sarah (1945) Roman Catholic bishop

The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (2017)

“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values… God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.”

Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist

As quoted in Reader's Digest (July 1972)

“His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.”

Roger Zelazny Lord of Light

Source: Lord of Light

“There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”

G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"

“It was seldom he found himself in company who made him feel this stupid. It was probably good for his soul.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)

“Let us meditate on the love of God, who being supremely happy Himself, communicateth perfect happiness to us. Supreme happiness doth not make God forget us; shall the miserable comforts of this life make us forget Him?”

James Saurin (1759–1842) Bishop of Dromore; Irish Anglican bishop

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 270.

“Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

Source: Pensées and Other Writings

“It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

“a man would know the women he was meant to be with because she made him weak. Till he claimed her and she made him strong.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: If You Deceive

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

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