Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of perspective in understanding the significance of different aspects of life.
Corrie Ten Boom's quote highlights the necessity of perceiving life with balanced perspective, urging individuals to properly assess what is truly significant compared to what is less important. By learning to distinguish between great and small matters, one can navigate life more effectively, focusing on what genuinely deserves attention while not getting overwhelmed by trivial concerns.
In practice
In a motivational speech about time management, one could use this quote to highlight prioritization.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo
I just try to make sure, in everything I do, I do what I'm supposed to be doing in a confident and a humble way at the same time. It's been working for me.
Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.
And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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