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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. -- Phillips Brooks
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. -- John Ralston Saul
In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. -- Stephane Mallarme
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. -- Edith Hamilton
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. -- Bertrand Russell
When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. -- Andre Breton
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. -- George Saunders
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. -- Samuel Johnson
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. -- Dag Hammarskjold
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. -- Adam Ferguson
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites. -- Robert Graves
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. -- Euripides
It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy. -- Max Heindel
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Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, but we are not. Each day, ours is the challenge to access the power of the Atonement so that we can truly change, become more Christlike, and qualify for the gift of exaltation and live eternally with God, Jesus Christ, and our families. For these powers, privileges, and gospel gifts, thanks be to God! -- Russell M. Nelson
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't. -- Primo Levi
All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation. -- Brigham Young
Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation. -- Spencer W. Kimball
Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation. -- Bruce R. McConkie
No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Pure womanhood plus priesthood means exaltation. But womanhood without priesthood, or priesthood without pure womanhood doesn't spell exaltation. -- Harold B. Lee
There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. -- Winston Churchill
A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation. -- Knut Hamsun
Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. -- Christopher Hitchens
We rejoice in all the Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for each of us to gain our salvation and exaltation. -- Quentin L. Cook
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. -- Albert Camus
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. -- Hermann Hesse
Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all. -- John Cheever
The goals and successes of my professional life pale in comparison to my personal goals of an eternal family, receiving exaltation and being with the Savior again. -- LaVell Edwards
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious. -- Douglas McCulloh
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented. -- John Owen
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. -- Charles Caleb Colton
L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins. -- C. J. Mahaney
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. -- Henry Purcell
He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." -- Heber J. Grant
Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation. -- T. S. Eliot
Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization. -- Yehudi Menuhin
I can tell you that solitudeIs not all exaltation, inner spaceWhere the soul breaths and work can be done.Solitude exposes the nerve,Raises up ghosts.The past, never at rest, flows through it. -- May Sarton
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. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. -- Thomas Sowell
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Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness. -- Richard J. Foster
Your faith in Jesus Christ gives life enduring meaning. Remember you are on a journey to exaltation. Sometimes you have experiences that yield more happiness than others, but it all has purpose with the Lord. -- Richard G. Scott
It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction. -- Brigham Young

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