Quotes about Elevation

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

Christ descended to us, to bear us up to the Father, and at the same time to bear us up to himself, inasmuch as he is one with the Father.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

People who have been initiated broke through in what felt like breaking down.

All Mature Spirituality Is About Letting Go

LOVE is not only an Emotion.....It is the Highest Emotion.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward.

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

The wings of prayer carry high and far.

Observant Judeans would make a stop by the baths before morning prayers, as immersion was a component of spiritual cleanliness. For Jacob there was far more here than merely cleaning off the road's dust. He knew that the act of immersion was considered a symbol of change. Of elevating oneself from the earthly to the heavenly realms. Jacob wanted to mark all that had happened with such an act, and to complete the action with prayer.

Man's strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

If I must choose which I would elevate— The people or the already lofty mountains, I'd elevate the already lofty mountains.