Quotes about Lower

Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn all the way around the lower hem, with gold bells between them,

From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.

He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,

which flanked the gateways and corresponded to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

In the spiritual as the material, nothing is done without labor, and the higher cannot be known until the lower is fulfilled.

Hence Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. ii, 8): "The other things which are lower than the angels are so created that they first receive existence in the knowledge of the rational creature, and then in their own nature.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28:43

When, then, we ask why a crime was done, we believe it not, unless it appear that there might have been some desire of obtaining some of those which we called lower goods, or a fear of losing them. For they are beautiful and comely; although compared with those higher and beatific goods, they be abject and low.

But now the question arises, Why has God demanded of man that which he is incapable of performing? The first answer is, Because God refuses to lower His standard to the level of our sinful infirmities.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.