Quotes about Exaltation

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'