Quotes about Elevation
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
- Margaret Fuller
Praise is a higher dimension of faith.
- Mark Batterson
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
- Mark Twain
The greater your love, the shorter the distance to the divine.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you have ever had the vision of God, you may try as you like to be satisfied on a lower level, but God will never let you.
- Oswald Chambers
C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.
- Patrick Morley
“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:1
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 28:13
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- 1 Samuel 2:8
He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.
- 2 Samuel 22:34
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
- Esther 3:1