Lifts Quotes - Page 2

• Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Voice, Mind, Routine

  Jack W. Hayford (1992). “The Heart of Praise: Daily Ways to Worship the Father with Psalms”

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• No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

  John H. McWhorter

  Compassion, People, Poverty

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• If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring.

  Norman Doidge

  Growth, Littles, Firsts

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• The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Successful, People, Leader

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• Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Christ, Humbling

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• God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Tools, World

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• When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

  Michele Cassou

  Energy, Veils, Painting

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• The mighty hero of extraordinary powers, able to lift Mount Govardhan on a finger, and to fill himself with the terrible glory of the universe, is each of us: not the physical self visible in the mirror, but the King within.

  Joseph Campbell

  Kings, Hero, Mirrors

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.315, New World Library

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• Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Pain, Adversity, Eye

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• I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature-not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Mean

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

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• Love is meant to lift you up, not hold you down.

  Suzy Kassem

  Love Is, Lift You Up

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• Let's all just follow the lead of Glamour, and join forces and lift each other up.

  Amy Schumer

  Glamour, Force

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• Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivation, Love Is, Men

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• This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That was my thinking.

  Michael Chiklis

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

  Joyce Meyer

  Way, Clue, Bless

  Joyce Meyer (2000). “Help Me, I'm Married!”, Harrison House Incorporated

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• We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Thinking, Challenges

  "Meryl Streep, Michelle Obama Discuss Gender Equality: 'We're Still Not There Yet'" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 19, 2015.

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• But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

  Rumi

  Wings, Spheres, Clarity

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

  Carl Palmer

  Real, Play, Trying

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• A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

  Thomas Starr King

  Lying, Feelings, Mind

  Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6

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• Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Long, Leader

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• Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind; Veil upon veil will lift but there must be Veil upon veil behind.

  Edwin Arnold

  Eye, Mind, Veils

  Various, Helmuth von Glasenapp, Nyanamoli Thera, Nyanaponika Thera, Acarya Buddharakkhita (2008). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume II: Numbers 16–30”, p.399, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

  Flower A. Newhouse

  Mean, Angel, Mind

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• If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

  Robin Trower

  People, Giving, Feels

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• I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Maintaining, Levels

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• If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, Voice, Punishment

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