Quotes About Elevation

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.

Love elevates. Love is what you live for.

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

Racism is based on an elevation of our own talents, physical characteristics, and DNA—which we inherited by no choice or merit of our own—over someone else's. It's an assumption that the other person is different and thus we are better. It's an attitude that says, "I represent the norm, and you are the variation, the outlier, the odd one.

The first of these rules out the Inquisition; the second rules out such methods as those of British war propaganda, which Hitler praises on the ground that propaganda "must sink its mental elevation deeper in proportion to the numbers of the mass whom it has to grip".

God, be exalted above the heavens; let Your glory be above the whole earth. Psalm 57:5

Then you will delight yourself in the Lord, and I will make you ride over the heights of the land. Isaiah 58:14

You who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. Jeremiah 49:16

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

When we raise our game aesthetically, we elevate it morally and spiritually as well.

The Bhagavad-Gita changes this. It takes the Warrior Ethos and elevates it to a loftier and nobler plane—the plane of the individual's inner life, to his struggle to align himself with his own higher nature.

to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself.

Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus.

What is bound will be unbound. What is cast down will be lifted up. That is the promise of Our Lady.

She turned her attention from Maharani Putlabai to Mirabai. Why was the younger queen on a chair and not a cushion? Perhaps it was a statement of her middling position—that she was not high enough for the zenana throne, but she was respected enough not to be somewhat elevated.

El tiempo termina por elevar casi todas las fotografías, aun las más inexpertas, a la altura del arte.

It stands on a slight eminence

There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

This physical pull between us was a mind-twister; the reconnection was immediate and strong. Now that Cam was physically here, charging the scant space between us, I realized how much energy I'd dedicated to not thinking about him. … Being without him was like visiting Denver, where the elevation wasn't enough to kill me, but every breath took work.