Circle Got Smaller Quotes

#1. One trend I see is the rejection of growth for self-discovery and the pursuit of authentic community. So we keep whittling our spiritual community to a smaller and smaller and more exclusive inner circle. The problem is if the diagnoses are wrong, so will be the cure.

Erwin McManus

#2. The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

Reinhard Bonnke

#3. You turn up in the morning, you get through hair and make-up, and then you are on set working until it's time to go home. And I love that. Coming from the theater, you just turn up and you're ready for whatever happens. That energy really appeals to me.

Andre Holland

#4. I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

Anne Frank

#5. Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

Bruce Chatwin

#6. A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.

Georgi Parvanov

#7. The only way of touching a heart is to wound it

Stendhal

#8. A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

David Hilbert

#10. Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

Shane Claiborne

#11. Energy in the morning, determination at midday, hunger in the evening.

John Katzenbach

#12. In midair, dangling lost above the world.

Sarah Dessen

#13. I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

Faith Hill

#14. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Okay, please draw a circle." I did. "Now draw a smaller circle within that circle." I did. "The larger circle is virgins. The smaller circle is seventeen-year-old guys with one leg.

John Green

#16. My mood depends heavily on what happens to me right after I get up.

Marie Brennan

#17. the person who has arrived at a habitual state of unconditional love will find anything less to be unacceptable

David Hawkins

#18. We share a reckless, toxic love that feeds the brokenness in me, in us. Our love is an addiction. A love that I won't ever consider living without.

Angie McKeon