Little Things – Zitate

Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.

— F. W. Faber

  ​ At Toulon, Napoleon, looking out of the batteries, drew back a step to let some one take his place. The next moment the new arrived was killed. That step brought the French Empire, and made possible the bloody roll of its victories and defeats. The rout at Waterloo turned on a shower of rain hindering Grouchy's advance. The resolution of a moment, with some men, has been the turning-point of infinite issues to a world.

— J. C. Geikie

One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than to quantity; it teaches that God does not ask how much we do, but how we do it.

— J. F. Clarke

Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight,—and I should enjoy that—but why make me sweep the dust?"

— Charles Kingsley

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

— Longfellow

The reason why those who are converted to Christ often make so poor a work of rectifying their old habits, is that they lay down their work in the very places where it needs to be prosecuted most carefully, that is, in their common employments. They do not live to God in that which is least.

— Horace Bushnell

For honesty is before honor; and though man must write his poems in sounding words, God's poems are printed best in the brave and silent duties of common life.

— Edward Garrett

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

— Horace Bushnell

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day;—it shall go ringing on through the ages.

— Wm. M. Punshon

  ​ God, who prepares His work for the ages, accomplishes it by the feeblest instruments. It is the method of His providence to produce great results from inconsiderable means. The law which prevades the kingdom of nature is discerned in the history of mankind. Truth makes silent progress, like the water that trickles behind the rocks, and loosens them from the mountain on which they rest. Suddenly the hidden operation is revealed, and a single day suffices to lay bare the work of years, if not of ages.

— John Lanahan

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. "Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.

— Alexander Maclaren