Quotes about Elevation

It maketh God man, and man God; things temporal, eternal; mortal, immortal; it maketh an enemy a friend, a servant a son, vile things glorious, cold hearts fiery, and hard thing liquid.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.

The confession of the church touching Jesus Christ can never be a knowledge such that, with it, the church can elevate itself above the world. It is precisely within the church that people will have to remind themselves that this knowledge is a gift and a miracle which did not arise out of flesh and blood.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.