Shortsighted Quotes

Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

Christiaan Huygens

If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the Dead

Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana