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Tiny Pushes: A Quote By Helen Keller

June 13, 2012 by Christina

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968)

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker…

Quoted in Susan Hunt’s The True Woman: The Beauty and Strength of a Godly Woman, 1997, Wheaton: Crossway Books, page 112.

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  1. Barbara Thayer says

    June 13, 2012 at 9:17 pm

    This was so meaningful to me as the grandmother of a special needs child. Helen Keller achieved beyond what those around thought she would. What a difference her life made! Whatever God has called us to do, we must obey with joy because we do not have the whole picture as He does. Thank you dear friend!

    • Christina says

      June 13, 2012 at 9:33 pm

      Amen Barbara. It’s easy to forget, in the ordinary things of life, that even the smallest acts of obedience have eternal repercussions beyond our imagination.

  2. alcoramdeo says

    June 13, 2012 at 9:54 pm

    Thank you. The comments increase the delight of the posted quotation.
    The deepest sense of the truth represented here is in the realization that all this is so because of its infinitely brilliant design and implementation by Him Who made all things according to His own good pleasure and will.

    • Christina says

      June 13, 2012 at 10:06 pm

      For him, through him and to him (Rom 11:36)! Thanks Al!

  3. Paul D. Adams says

    June 14, 2012 at 9:36 am

    Great quote because it beautifully depicts the spirit of Jesus’ words “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much” (Lk 16:10).

  4. Jesaja 66:2 says

    June 15, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Thanks!

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