Quotes about Elevation
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
- St. John Chrysostom
We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.
- Gordon Hinckley
Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see ; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.
- James Allen
Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.
- Florence Nightingale
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
- Joseph Bradley
Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.
- Myles Munroe
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
- John Updike
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.
- AW Tozer
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Gregory says (Moral. xxxii, 7): "He is in glory, Who whilst He rejoices in Himself, needs not further praise.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.
- St. Thomas Aquinas