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• All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Mean, Class, Church

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• Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Psychics, Faithful

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• What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Imagination, Goal

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

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• We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild -- yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

  J. I. Packer

  Jesus, Mean, Ideas

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.242, InterVarsity Press

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• It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

  Thomas Merton

  Creating, Tasks, Mindfulness

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.202, Macmillan

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• The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
  Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
  So always strive for that.
  Set your life around that goal.
  Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Goal, Enlightenment, Purpose

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• The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

  James Monroe

  Feelings, Mind, Sentiments

  Message to Congress, December 1822.

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• Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Decay, Way

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• If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown.

  Laozi

  Kings, Taoism, Might

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• Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Challenges, Way

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• Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which, by its own esthetic logic, is the END of art, the glorious pinnacle of the long pyramidal creative process. Stifled by this rarefied atmosphere, some young painters turn back to some less exalted things like Coca-Cola, ice-cream sodas, big hamburgers, super-markets and 'EAT' signs. They are eye-hungry; they pop.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Spring, Eye

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• WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Wrath, Quality

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.

  Nicholas of Flue

  Powerful, Sight, Catholic

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• In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Winter, Moon

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

  John Vianney

  Blessed, Fall, Humble

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• Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

  Fisher Ames

  Reputation, Failing, Scrutiny

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.116

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• Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Running, Sacrifice, Idols

  Aldous Huxley (2003). “Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience”, Crossroad 8 Avenue

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• I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declare myself the executioner. The three criminals are hereby sentenced to death. By fire. By earth. By water.

  Jay Bennett

  Moving, Fire, Long

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• Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Mean, Punishment, People

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• Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Country, Distance, Men

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• The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.

  Michel Onfray

  Mother, Atheist, Book

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• We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Dust, Way

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• Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth; it is a matter of desire, diligence, and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Determination, Fatherhood, Desire

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Men, Earth

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Authentic Jesus”, Intervarsity Pr

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• Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

  Samuel Richardson

  Mind Love, Perfection, And Love

  Samuel Richardson, Anna Laetitia Barbauld (2011). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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