Specks Quotes - Page 6

• Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Mirrors, Voice

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.

  Roberta Bondi

  Beautiful, God, Mirrors

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• If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Moon, Destiny

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142

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• All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Dust, Water

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• I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When I write I may be a Brando creep, or a girl laying on the floor, or a Japanese tourist, or a slob like Richard Speck. You have to be a chameleon when you're writing.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Writing, Men

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• ...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan the photographs. Stop and think about them. Try to imagine the scale. The Earth is just a speck of dust on one distant whirling tentacle of the Milky Way galaxy, which contains billions of stars. A 'collision' of galaxies seems unimaginably large - and yet it is something scientists long ago imagined... The imaginings of pseudoscience are feeble by comparison.

  Mark Bowden

  Stars, Thinking, Space

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• In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

  John Gay

  Snow, Faults, Grows

  John Gay (1779). “Fables ... In one volume complete”, p.28

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• Sometimes people stumble over this vastness in relation to the apparent insignificance of man. It does seem to make us infinitesimally small. But the meaning of this magnitude is not mainly about us. It’s about God… The reason for ‘wasting’ so much space on a universe to house a speck of humanity is to make a point about our maker, not us.

  John Piper

  Men, Space, People

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• One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of 'life' which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.

  Colin Wilson

  Men, Space, Giving

  "Religion and the Rebel". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 309, 1957.

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• All of our media is made of language: our films, our music, our images, and of course our words. How different this is from analog production, where, if you were somehow able to peel back the emulsion from, say, a photograph, you wouldn't find a speck of language lurking below the surface.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Media, Different, Our Words

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Stars, Ocean, Math

  Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.97, Wendy Lamb Books

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• For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is not the highest and greatest mode of consciousness which can be attained - there lie ahead the realms of the superconscious and the pitiful ego, by comparison, is as a speck of nothingness.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Self, Ego

  Ken Wilber (1999). “The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden”, Shambhala Publications

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• The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required.

  George Will

  Simple, Thinking, Civilization

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.335, Crown Forum

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• You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, Dark, Tunnels

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.135, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.

  Hugh Ross

  Stars, Humility, Support

  Hugh Ross (2010). “Why the Universe Is the Way It Is”, p.41, Baker Books

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• If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.

  Pema Chodron

  Real, Dust, Clouds

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.164, Shambhala Publications

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• Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

  Socrates

  Fall, Dust, Sand

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• I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

  Simon Van Booy

  Distance, Love Is, Thinking

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.270, Oneworld Publications

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• I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.

  Layman Pang

  Believe, Dust, Names

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• The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.

  Wanda Landowska

  Spring, Dust, May

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• When the camera is looking back at our planet Earth, it's the tiniest of specks somewhere out there in the universe. So we do have a new sense of proportion. Of course the volcanoes and the magma under us just remind us of that.

  Werner Herzog

  Volcanoes, Earth, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.

  Sylvia Earle

  Blue, Use, Littles

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2017

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• Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Littles, Sometimes

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them is like a speck of glass working itself deeper into your flesh.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Hurt, Glasses, People

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