Quotes About Exaltation

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6

Shout to God with a jubilant cry. For the LORD Most High is awe-inspiring, a great King over all the earth. Psalm 47:1–2

Although I have these problems, I know that You, Lord, are greater than they are. You are my heavenly Father. You are a good God. In You is everything I need for my life, and I choose to exalt You above all.

It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless.

I got through my childhood in a delirium of literary exaltations.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Que quede bien claro: el alma, como le dicen, es, pareciera, no cristalina sino pantanosa. Los motivos que la inducen, en esta cuadra, a dejarse llevar, como los llaman, al juego y a la exaltación, en la siguiente, con la misma arbitrariedad, y en forma no menos imprevisible, la sumen, para usar una vez más la expresión, en una intensa melancolía. En todo caso pareciera, ¿no?

God says our thinking must be shaped by His truth. What this world calls valuable, God calls worthless. What this world scorns, God exalts. "My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways" (Isaiah 55:8).

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

No basta que el artista esté inspirado para que produzca. Debe, además, trabajar y trabajar para llevar esa inspiración a la forma perfecta. La fórmula verdadera de la creación artística no es, pues, inspiración o trabajo, sino inspiración más trabajo, exaltación más paciencia, deleite creador más tormento creador.

La gratitude rend heureux parce qu'on fait rarement l'expérience palpable, la délicatesse de sentiment fait du bien et, pour moi, être mesuré et froid, une telle exaltation signifiait quelque chose de tout à fait bienfaisant, merveilleux.

Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God

The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

And therefore the exaltation of man over the rest of nature, the fashionable fussing over and worshipping of man, never appealed to them. Such false principles of social life, turned into politics, seemed to them pathetically homemade and remained incomprehensible.

As for me, the closest I have come to exaltation has been here at the university, with a book in my hand. Literature has served me faithfully (no pun intended) as an ersatz religion, and I would wager that the pursuit of the ineffable via aesthetics in various forms has saved as many foundering souls as a belief in god.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exaltedî

If the church remains self-righteously aloof from failures, irreligious and immoral people, it cannot enter justified into God's kingdom. But if it is constantly aware of its guilt and sin, it can live in joyous awareness of forgiveness. The promise has been given to it that anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.9

Il y a en moi une exaltation et une passion qui ont besoin du recours à Dieu, même si je ne crois pas en Dieu.