Exaltation Quotes

• 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.

  Wise, Godly, Men

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• 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

  Stupid, Heart, Brain

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• Christ's divinity accounts for His exaltation to the right hand of God, justifies the worship of angels and the confidence of mankind. It makes clear His right to the throne of the universe, and enables the mind to understand why He is exalted in providence, in grace, and in judgment. It is the unifying truth that harmonizes all other teachings of Christianity, and renders the entire system symmetrical and complete.

  George C. Lorimer

  Teaching, Angel, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 57), 1895.

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• 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

  Secret, Pulse, Answers

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.326, Booklassic

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• 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

  Pain, Kindness, Law

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Problem, Thousand, Right Place

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• Humility is the beginning virtue of all exaltation.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Humility, Virtue

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• 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

  Jesus, Journey, Yield

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• As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Men, May

  Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• 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

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Events, Lifts

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Rebel

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• 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

  Life, Feelings, Enlightenment

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• 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

  Fate, Men, Stronger

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

  Euripides

  Thinking, Mystery, Found

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• 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

  Nature, Differences, Common Sense

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• 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.

  Primo Levi

  Heart, Brain, Kidneys

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• The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

  Brigham Young

  Son, Men, Monogamy

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.269

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• Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine - the Son of God - to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jesus, Believe, Son

  "Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley". Ensign magazine, p. 64, March 2001.

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• Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humility, Self, Opposites

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• 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

  Power, Giving, Dazzle

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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• 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

  Goal, Receiving, Pale

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Imagination, People

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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