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Quotes About Highest

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
~ Lactantius
Jonas was shocked. A name designated Not-to-Be-Spoken indicated the highest degree of disgrace.
~ Lois Lowry
The highest part of the soul that corresponds to Atziluth, the Archetypal World, and the Yod of the Tetragrammaton, is called the Chiah.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination, and of the heart.
~ Salman Rushdie
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
~ Zig Ziglar
La célébrité de l'île ne datait pas d'hier: son nom, ou plutôt sa qualification, remontait à la plus haute Antiquité; les anciens l'appelaient Kalonèse, de deux mots grecs qui signifient belle île.
~ Alexandre Dumas
In its purity this life [in the home circle] is the highest, the most exalted that can be thought or dreamed of for the education of our race. It is unconditionally true: where love and the ability to love are found in the home circle there one can confidently predict that the education it affords almost never fails.
~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Du, Erde, warst auch diese Nacht beständig Und atmest neu erquickt zu meinen Füßert, Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben, Du regst und rührst ein kräftiges Beschließen, Zum höchsten Dasein immerfort zu streben. This night, thou, Earth! hast also stood unshaken, And now thou breathest new-refreshed before me, And now beginnest, all thy gladness granting, A vigorous resolution to restore me, To seek that highest life for which I'm panting.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Q- What is the highest possible psychic realization ... ? A- That God, the Father, speaks directly to the sons of men-even as He has promised. 440-4
~ Edgar Cayce
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. South
~ Edward Abbey
Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis [Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to men of good will].
~ Anonymous
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
~ Anonymous
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
~ Anonymous
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't understand about an ecosystems is that it is a system…that's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
~ Frank Herbert
Ritschl taught that when Christians affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ, they mean that Jesus Christ has the value of God for them. Jesus was the inaugurator of the kingdom of God, which is God's highest good. Because Jesus' life was unequaled in devotion to the kingdom of God, he has the value of God. God realized his highest good in the man
~ Roger E. Olson
Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder
~ Rohinton Mistry
I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven -- what it is and what it holds for us. I don't think it can be so very different from life here as most people seem to think. I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here -- and be OURSELVES just the same -- only it will be easier to be good and to -- follow the highest. All the hindrances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.
~ Hugh Black
is at the same time the highest and holiest
~ Andrew Murray
Though in its beginnings, prayer is so simple that the feeblest child can pray, yet at the same time it is the highest and holiest work that man can accomplish. Prayer is fellowship with the unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal.
~ Andrew Murray
humility is one of the chief and the highest graces; one of the most difficult of attainment; one to which our first and chiefest efforts ought to be directed; one that only comes in power, when the fullness of the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ, and He lives within us. Second
~ Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.
~ Andrew Murray
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
~ Saul Bellow