Quotes About Elevation

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.

a real live count ought to be a passport for them [the Gould family] into the innermost of the inner circles, which privilege they so much crave,' said the New York World, showing a lively appreciation of the truth that the simplest way for a family to elevate itself into the top level of New York society was through the strategic marriage of a daughter.

When Sam was six or so, he explained to me why we call God God: Because when you see something so great, you just go, 'God!

My Master's face was rapt and beautiful, a white flame against the wavering golden light of countless candles. He stood over me.

And jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops...

When it's played the way is spozed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

I'm the new Oberjarl." I knew it," said Halt instantly, and the other three looked at him, totally scandalized. You did?" Erak asked, his voice hollow, his eyes still showing the shock of his sudden elevation to the highest office in Skandia. Of course," said the Ranger, shrugging. "You're big, mean, and ugly and those seem to be the qualities Skandian's value most.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.

This time, there had been no evident danger, but nevertheless she was carried helplessly into the air and away.

Screen porch in a tree.

I could not believe that I was sitting in the sky

our goal must be to bring man's unique fusion of body, mind, and spirit to its highest perfection.

Briand realized that even now he could not dismiss France's supposed savior outright. So, instead, he elevated him into insignificance, by making Joffre a marshal of France

You break From earthly approval And common urges: Then soar, accordingly

Well did the Puritan Sibbes say, "God, to show His love to us, showed Himself God in this: that He could be God and go so low as to die" (Vol. 5, p. 327).

Todas sus sensaciones alcanzaron una elevación hasta entonces ignorada para él. Vivió las experiencias de una vida infinitamente variada; murió y resucitó, amó hasta la pasión más ardiente y viose separado de nuevo y para siempre de su amada. Al fin, hacia el alba, cuando las primeras luces quebraban la penumbra, en su alma empezó a reinar una creciente paz, y las imágenes se tornaron más claras y permanentes.

The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

For the retiring of the mind within itself is the state which is most susceptible of divine influxions; save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency and elevation (which the ancients noted by fury), and not with a repose and quiet, as it is in the other.

The power of a government by discussion as an instrument of elevation plainly depends—other things being equal—on the greatness or littleness of the things to be discussed.