Quotes about Eminence

For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

“To whom will you liken Me, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.

We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings starting with the single cell, then the fish, then the bird, then the animal, then man and angels and cherubs and God.… This would be to grant God eminence or even preeminence but that is not enough. We must grant God transcendence in the fullest meaning of that word. He's wholly other. He breaks all the categories of being and knowing.24

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.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be opened through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.