Something Higher Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to… — Teresa of Avila
My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote.… — Paul Klee
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation,… — Swami Vivekananda
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. — James A. Baldwin
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be… — Victor Hugo
Psychics exploit the human beings' natural desire that longs for something higher. â€¦ The same way a pimp exploits the natural desire to be with… — Christine O'Donnell
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when… — James Frey
The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and… — Abraham Kuyper
I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a… — Yasmin Mogahed
In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between… — Joseph Campbell
The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day… — Uta Hagen
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher… — Willi Unsoeld
I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live. — David McCullough
Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their… — Leland Ryken
If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you… — Frederick Lenz
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… — Ben Okri
The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear… — Milan Kundera
Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage… — David O. McKay

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