Quotes About Exaltation

The first step in personal revival is to get God in His rightful place. When God is recognized as being above me, beyond me, highly exalted, over me, and totally separate from me, I am getting in position for a downpour. When I embrace God for who He is and I understand who I am—when I know God's place, I can know my place—then things start to fall into place. That's what God's holiness does for us—it puts everything and everyone in their rightful place.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

We could not be further from ballooning's established tropes: freedom, spiritual exaltation, human progress. Redon's eternally open eye is deeply unsettling. The eye in the sky; God's security camera. And that lumpish human head invites us to conclude that the colonisation of space doesn't purify the colonisers; all that has happened is that we have brought our sinfulness to a new location.

The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.

Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Music touches our innermost being, and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man's life.

Holiness exalts people and keeps them on high

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

In its greatest moments, memory seems to desert human beings ; only tiny ordinary events leave clear detailed trace. Probably none at the pitch of exaltation which Charles and his men had reached had any remembrance of what happened; we can be supermen only on condition of going into a trance. The result alone is related

"Harmony, accordingly, has been restored. Peace was made. Through Christ and his cross the universe is brought back or restored to its proper relationship to God in the sense that as a just reward for his obedience Christ was exalted to the Father's right hand, from which position of authority and power He rules the entire universe in the interest of the church and to the glory of God." (on Colossians 1:20)

That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of the human mind. It may assume the lowliest air, but sinful man seeks his own honour and present exaltation.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.

Whoever is humble to men for God's sake, may God exalt his eminence.

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'