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 God’s 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
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.
I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
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