Quotes About Elevation

When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.

My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage.

Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

How the woman movement has elevated woman's work, since it has raised the standard of qualification in many fields and increased the feeling of responsibility in all!

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

The higher a man is in grace, the lower he will be in his own esteem.

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

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.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.

If we fill the palace with vulgar people and all kinds of junk, how can the Lord and His Court occupy it? When such a crowd is there it would be a great thing if He were to remain for even a short time.

He always gives us much more than we deserve by granting us a spiritual sweetness much greater than we can obtain from the pleasures and distractions of this life.

If we dance amongst the rooftops, is it not that much further to jig into the starshine?

The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer—no matter what he believes in.