She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,--when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.
Quotes about exalting (7 Quotes)
Humility does not consist in hiding our talents and virtues, in thinking ourselves worse and more ordinary than we are, But in possessing a clear knowledge of all that is lacking in us and in not exalting ourselves for that which we.
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only to be snatched away by an invisible hand patiently waiting for the hour when the cup is sweetest they are given to us that we may grow, alike through their rise or their withdrawal. They are real, they are sweet, and they are worthy of our longing for them we gain nothing by calling them dross, or the world an illusion, or ourselves the victims of deception, or by exalting renunciation as the highest virtue. When these opportunities are denied us, it is a real, not an imaginary, loss which we sustain and our part is not that of bare renunciation, of simple surrender our part is to recognize the loss, to bear the pain, and to find a deeper and richer life in doing the will of God.
It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen that's the most exalting.
I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.