Raise Up Quotes - Page 2

• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

  John Dryden

  Kings, Political, True Or False

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 83

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• Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Mean, Soul, Suffering

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• God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

  William Romaine

  Men, Century, Raises

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• I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

  John Nelson Darby

  Teacher, Church, Desire

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• God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.

  Matt Chandler

  Turtles, Fence Post, Giving

  Matt Chandler, Eric Geiger, Josh Patterson (2012). “Creature of the Word”, p.176, B&H Publishing Group

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• I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Definitions, Orthodoxy, Open Minded

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, War, Thinking

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

  Ellen G. White

  Sight, People, Darkness

  Ellen G. White (2015). “Prophets and Kings”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their loins immortal spirits: when their families become numerous, they organize new worlds for them. [T]hey place their families upon the same.

  Orson Pratt

  Wife, Example, Generations

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• I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Zero, Moving, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.

  Mark Twain

  Hero, Self, Years

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.698, e-artnow

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• Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

  Walter Scott

  Should Have, Soldier, Abuse

  Sir Walter Scott (1832). “Talisman”, p.300

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• Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Hands, Law, Tyrants

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• Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

  Bill Johnson

  Simple, Generations, Power Of God

  Bill Johnson (2011). “A Life of Miracles: 365-Day Guide to Prayer and Miracles”, Destiny Image Publishers

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• My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between God's people. Yet, if all God truly wanted was to raise up one fully yielded son--a son who would refuse to be offended, refuse to react, refuse to harbor unforgiveness regardless of those who slander and persecute--I have determined to be that person. My primary goal in all things is not revival, but to bring pleasure to Christ.

  Francis Frangipane

  Prayer, Attitude, Healing

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• Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

  Guru Nanak

  Son, Men, Issues

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• I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

  May Sarton

  Past, Space, Soul

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

  Homer

  Father, Believe, Moving

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• We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Hands, Mind

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book III, (Ch. 20), 1845.

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• It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Religion, Would Be

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• Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.

  Thomas Lickona

  Strong, Children, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2004). “Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  People, Firsts, Modern

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.

  Chuck Pierce

  Army, Enemy, Generations

  "Chuck Pierce: Incredible Prophecy: 'Hear the Clock Ticking! You Have Been Catapulted Into the Three Years Ahead!'". www.elijahlist.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son, that one day he takes a banner, the banner of Jesus Christ, and he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed a banner before, and he cries out, 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' even if it costs my son his life.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Nice, Home

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