Quotes About Elevation

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

Now my haters are very high class people, so I feel like I've moved up.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

My motto for Seoul is 'From Good to Great.'

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.

Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

Cuando la naturaleza femenina, naturalmente tan perversa, se sublima en la santidad, entonces acierta a convertirse en el más elevado vehículo de la gracia.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

He felt as though his brain were on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how she had looked at him! She seemed more beautiful than ever before. Beautiful with a beauty that combined all of the woman with all of the angel, a beauty that would have made Petrarch sing and Dante kneel. He felt as though he were swimming in the deep blue sky. At the same time he was horribly disconcerted, because there was dust on his boots.

The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of misery will be accomplished by a simple elevation of level.

He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.

A creature so beautiful that God would have preferred her to the Virgin and have chosen her for his mother and have wished to be born of her if she had been in existence when he was made man!

They convert a poor camel-driver into a Mahomet; a peasant girl tending her goats into a Joan of Arc. Solitude generates a certain amount of sublime exaltation.

The stairs unfold from the ceiling like a gentleman extending his hand.

When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by; it is fine and written in a masterly manner.

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring to the highest ascent.

I went down and down,' he remembered, 'until the wingtips of angels brushed my eyes.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.