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If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man. -- Matthew Simpson
Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment. -- Randy Castillo
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness. -- Al Leiter
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about. -- Greg Lynn
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. -- Washington Irving
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. -- Dan Savage
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God. -- Victor Hugo
I'm a great believer in the character of a club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. -- Tony La Russa
If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. -- Melvin Calvin
Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long. -- Ralph Gibson
We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics. -- Stone Gossard
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. -- Alfred Adler
Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch. -- Virginia Postrel
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? -- Ben Shapiro
We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair. -- Mark Takano
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings. -- David Crosby
Unquestionable ability elevates our personality. -- Kishore Bansal
Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. -- John Milton
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave -- Edmund Morris
History admires the wise, but elevates the brave. -- Edmund Morris
Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver. -- Sivananda
Love elevates. Love is what you live for. -- Angelina Jolie
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. -- Walter Savage Landor
I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ... -- George Eliot
Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them. -- Steven Novella
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. -- Daniel Seligman
The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance. -- Phil Jackson
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. -- Frank Herbert
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love -- Bhagat Singh
Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others. -- William Monahan
Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special. -- Fiona Thrust
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit. -- Joseph Pilates
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. -- John Ruskin
Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency. -- Oprah Winfrey
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. -- Hosea Ballou
The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor. -- Emilio Ambasz
Contrary to our culture, the Biblical doctrine of Grace humbles us without degrading us, and elevates us without inflating us. -- Kenneth Boa
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. -- Margaret Oliphant
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. -- Eric Bentley
God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards. -- Daniel L Dreisbach
Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again. -- Pooja Ruprell
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. -- Walter Savage Landor
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. -- E. O. Wilson
I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration. -- Petra Remes
Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter. -- Gay Talese
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. -- Samuel Johnson
I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy. -- Lisa Kogan
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit. -- Mark Twain
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates. -- Edmund Burke
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit. -- Duane Elgin
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. -- Khalil Gibran
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. -- Michael Pollan
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words. -- Neil Genzlinger
There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it. -- Horace Mann
The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions. -- Adrian Rogers
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle. -- Tom DeLay
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise. -- Henry Clay
Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being. -- Samuel Johnson
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have. -- Tony La Russa
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand. -- Jean de la Bruyere
A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight. -- Barbara Holland
Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting. -- Andrew J Dubrin
Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow. -- Carl von Clausewitz
A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme. -- Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

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