Diminish Quotes

“God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.”
― Anthony Liccione

“True power does not insult, diminish, or belittle nor does it align itself with specialness, entitlement, or judgment. True power generates vibrational harmony, kindness, and presence.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good."
"The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.”
― Bill Willingham, Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

“[Joan's rule for dressing well] When you finish a creation, take something off. Diminish, diminish, diminish.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“Greed can take the whole of our intelligence and render it ‘stupid’ in a far, far shorter period of time than it took for our intelligence to become intelligent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If safety is my goal, living life is not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.”
― Moutasem Algharati

“I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He who is silent toward violence diminishes the offerings.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Understate—or as Valentina said, 'diminish.' Let your face be more important than your costume. If you think you may be wearing too much jewelry, you are. Ask your husband how he thinks you look. If he says, 'That's a lovely dress,' try again. What he should say is, 'You look lovely!”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“By far, the only way to add to great things is to appreciate the fact that they are great things. For anything else that I do will not lessen great things, but they will certainly lessen me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sad as it is, seems that the good always goes and gets replaced by something a whole lot less than good,” Aunt Mabel replied as she rearranged items in the old glass case. “Just seems we discard too much good in tryin’ to make things better. Maybe we should just enjoy what we got without always thinkin’ about what we don’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“We only dimly see the narrow way and dusty footpaths before us without the glorious light of Holiness”
― John M. Sheehan, Purgatory; A place of pruning Book 1

“Waiting, waiting, waiting for things to suddenly turn our way is futile. We mustn’t waste our lives (or diminish our sense of self-respect and industry) waiting for someone else to feed us our dinner.”
― Richie Norton

“Ignorance is the thing that we attribute to everyone else, which is a far greater ignorance than that which we’re accusing everyone else of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Applying man’s diminished standards to God’s Word will never result in the diminishment of the truth in His Word. However, it will most certainly result in the destruction of the person doing the diminishing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At what point will I realize that a commitment to self-preservation is in reality an act of self-suffocation?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Instruction manuals are not intended to restrict or diminish an object’s functionality, but to ensure that it functions as it was designed, at its optimal capacity.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose