Quotes about Exaltation

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.

Go on, and faint not, something of yours is in heaven, beside the flesh of your exalted Saviour, and ye go on after your own.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it.

God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most loving thing. Anyone else who exalts himself distracts us from what we need, namely, God.

God aims to exalt himself by working for those who wait for him. Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God: acknowledging our helplessness and his power, calling upon him for help, seeking his counsel.

We want people to like us and admire us and speak well of us. It is a deadly drive. Jesus warned us, "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted" (Matthew 23:12).

It is radically humbling to confess that the source of all our joy resides outside ourselves.

The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God's infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe, and nation.

No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save." Self-exaltation and Christ-exaltation can't go together.

God's glory consists much in the fact that He is happy beyond all our imagination.