Judged by our tentative human standards mankind may be divided into four distinct classes: Those who are great but not good; those who are good but not great; those who are both great and good; and those who are neither good nor great.
Of those who are good but not great:
...we may thank God that there are so many of them, being grateful not that they failed to achieve greatness but that by the grace of God they managed to acquire plain goodness...They are not known beyond the borders of their own parish because there is nothing dramatic in faithfulness or newsworthy in goodness, but their presence is a benediction wherever they go. They have no greatness to draw to them the admiring eyes of carnal men but are content to be good men and full of the Holy Ghost, waiting in faith for the day that their true worth shall be known. When they die they leave behind them a fragrance of Christ that lingers long after the cheap celebrities of the day are forgotten.
-- A. W. Tozer in God Tells the Man Who Cares
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