logo

Quotes About Elevation

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
~ Plato
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
~ Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
~ Helen Keller
God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'
~ Heidi Baker
I believe God promotes you when you graduate from the level that you're on.
~ T. D. Jakes
If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.
~ Paul David Tripp
You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!
~ St. Catherine of Siena
The higher the hair, the closer to god.
~ Chris Colfer
Progress is the stride of God.
~ Victor Hugo
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.
~ Timothy Keller
Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.
~ Roderick L. Evans
Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.
~ George C. Lorimer
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
~ Horace
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
~ John Milton
For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.
~ Tyler Perry
Chair lifts need to be in some places so that we can get to wonderful views without having to hike to them.
~ Dave Barry
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.
~ J. G. Holland
God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
~ J. I. Packer
Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.
~ Peter Kreeft
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
~ Anthony Sampson
Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
~ Robert Browning
You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.
~ Don DeLillo
At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche