The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality. - William R. Inge
Think about it: Here you are, two ambitious, opinionated, stressed-out adults, trying to live in the same house together, prosper together, maybe raise kids together, and, with any luck, take pleasure in spending the rest of your natural-born lives together. This is not easy. - Paula Szuchman ; Jenny Anderson
There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. - Marianne Williamson
When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone. - Debasish Mridha
Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. - Rossana Condoleo
It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level. - Roopleen
It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world. - Shannon L. Alder
I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do.""The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice. - Iain Banks
It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice. - Larry R. Lawrence
If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it. - Mark Glamack
Self-esteem is the switch in the circuit of your life that dims or brightness of your future. Bring it low and you don't shine your light; raise it up and you brighten the corner where you are. - Israelmore Ayivor
Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Human beings are born for peace; they like to grow up in peace. They like to raise their children in peace, and they like to say goodbye to this beautiful life in peace. Then why are we always preparing for war? - Debasish Mridha
Raise and Praise; it keeps the devil away!Feeling down? Start praising even if it is a sacrifice of praise. You will soon start feeling better because the devil will not stick around & praise God with you! - Sandra Lott
It takes a society to raise a generation. - David Berman
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. - Samuel Johnson
Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich; else you will live rich but die poor. - Aditya Ajmera
If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader.- - Suzanne Steele
we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion. i'd much rather die in a slaughter house if it were done right. - Temple Grandin
Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out! - Robert Tew
Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him. - Matshona Dhliwayo
All that we go through only happens to raise our vibrations. If we learn, we are raising it, the more we fight it, the lesser we learn, the more upset and unhappy we are. - Poonam Dhandhania
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically. - Philip Pullman
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. - Robert Orben
Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan - Noormohammad Bhuayan
Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Develop yourself from practice, to become exceptional. Raise your standards and be the best. - Mark F. LaMoure
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart - Alexander Pope
Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest. - Pradeepa Pandiyan
Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer. - Emma Forrest
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. - P.J. O'Rourke
God is not coming to fix any nation. The most he could do is to raise up a man or a woman who would take responsibility to fix the nation. - Sunday Adelaja
The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! - Jodi Livon
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. - Kurt Vonnegut
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. - Frank Zappa
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. - William Faulkner
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. - Chinese Proverb
Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a raise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity. - L. Ron Hubbard
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right. - Desmond Tutu
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. - George Gilder
Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity - Bernard Kelvin Clive
We raise predators by treating children as prey. - Stefan Molyneux
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government. - Martin Luther King Jr.
The church needs to raise up the Moses’ and last days deliverers. - Sunday Adelaja
If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down. - Kristin Richter
Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment - Ludiah Mong'are
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger. - Mariel
If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown Author 909
Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future. - Michael Bassey Johnson
We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two. - E.M. Forster
Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods. - Pam Leo
They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel. - Robert Jordan
The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it. - Steve Goodier
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown. - John Calvin
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. - Plato
The women’s entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to win their love and respect, to raise them as children, care for them as adults… these are women’s duties in all ages and these are what they should be taught from childhood. - Jacques Rousseau
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Anonymous
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer
If you find yourself wondering if you can go on, remember how much you’ve accomplished. Then raise your head high and be proud. YOU GOT THIS! - J.D. Crighton
Raise, Awake and take stand. Draw the path for others. Be a Leader. - Vivek Modi
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. - Dick Gregory
We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. - Diane Flynn Keith
One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel, Megan had tweeted back.Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire, Laura returned.Writing for me, Megan had typed.I’ll write you a tea fortune.No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good. - L.L. Barkat
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children - Lewis B. Frumkes
Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future. - Auliq Ice
Never raise your voice but raise yourself and your passion for love and life. - Debasish Mridha
Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn’t respond us, but drones came to our rescue. - M.F. Moonzajer
First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero. - Amit Kalantri
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. - Barack Obama
Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality. - Mark LaMoure
Trust your journey, trust the process, raise your energy and the right people will come into your life - Steven Aitchison
I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard - Malala Yousafzai
Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact intoconsideration. - Eraldo Banovac
It takes a village to raise a child. - Hillary Rodham Clinton
You are the sunshine, so raise above the clouds of anger, hate, resentment and intolerance to fill the world with beauty of love. - Debasish Mridha
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have only one chance to raise your child. - Jackie Kennedy
Raise a smile and lower stress - Benny Bellamacina
You get a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is also earned, too. Raise yourself to excellence by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure
I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together. - Friedrich Hölderlin
We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Blake gave Selena a nudge "Remember what I taught you, itsy-bitsy-babe-ette"She flashed him a mischievous grin and raise the hose." Boom goes the dynamite!"-Demons In Disguise - A&E Kirk
Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and "beautiful" will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you. - Kaiden Blake
If darkness surrounds you, look for the light. If you can't see it, raise your head up. You may be surrounded by darkness but it does not cover you on top. Let the light shine down on you and let it lead the way out of darkness. - Ann Marie Aguilar
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie. - Gustave Flaubert
Whenever enyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. - René Descartes
I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up millionaires from members of my church - Sunday Adelaja
Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can’t raise my voice you can’t raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists. - M.F. Moonzajer
We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care. - Matchbox 20
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back. - Malala Yousafzai
Life is like a Sunset and Sunrise, when sun goes down it will raise back again next day, life is also same way, sometimes we have to face good as well as bad situation which will help us to learn new things which we never excepted that will happen. - Madhu
The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment: Either raise your expectation to match your desire -or lower your desire to match your expectation. - Abraham Hicks
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it. - Shannon L. Alder
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. - Max Lucado
In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life. - Debasish Mridha
It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering - Valerie Tarico
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. - Leigh Hunt
In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you. - Stephen Richards
There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. - Marianne Williamson
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. - Ayn Rand
What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. - Kahlil Gibran
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. - Dan Seligman
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. - Gustave Flaubert
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. - Sara Sheridan
Raise your thoughts, not your fists. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....
When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter! - Brigette Foresman
A piece of benevolence, a shard of good will is sometimes all that is needed to raise a truly loyal army. - LordBloodySoul
If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then. - Alan Marshall
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. - Ludwig van Beethoven
So celebrate what you're accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) - Neil Gaiman
Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. - Aaron Sorkin
Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger. - Jimi Hendrix
Her mindset will raise your children not her body or good looks - claris mary
It doesn't take a man to have a child, it takes a man to raise a child. - GonzoBilly
Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him. - Stefan Emunds
Unclutter your life. Unclutter your home. We feel best when everything and everyone around us is in harmony and in balance.The peace and the beauty of your home will raise you up, and give energy to your goals. - Eileen Anglin
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
A client of mine once joked, If youremployer likes you, the rest is history, the raise and everythingelse will come. That intangible attitude in the workplace is whatsets apart those who get promoted and those who don’t. - Derric Yuh Ndim
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old. - George Fabricius
I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended. - Bill Clinton
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did. - Walter Mondale
You build a confident: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned. Be the best. Raise yourself to excellence, by writing your goals and working hard on them. Drive yourself to success. - Mark F. LaMoure
Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like - Natalia Lizardo
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs. - Barack Obama
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving. - Randy Alcorn
It is not how much money or luxury you avail a child that counts, but how well you nurture and raise the child to become useful, and a more productive individual in the society that matters - Abdulzeez Henry Musa
Ninja Mom's are graced to finish the raise set before them! - Anna M. Aquino
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). - Friedrich Nietzsche
You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly. - Darnell Lamont Walker
If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized. - Sunday Adelaja
True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying. - Abhijit Naskar
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. - Unknown
Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse. - Shilpa Sandesh
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't. - Haruki Murakami
Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument. - Desmond Tutu's father
Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. - Jalaluddin Rumi
You get a: "Can Do Attitude," by practicing to be excellent. Since you earn success by being determined, higher willpower is earned too. Raise yourself to excellence. - Mark F. LaMoure
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Voltaire
In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter? - Dada Bhagwan
Two things are needed to raise awareness: education and love. And these go hand in hand because we can be taught to love. - Kamand Kojouri
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. - Abi bin Abi Taleb
That kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up glory - Cassandra Clare
Don’t just raise the bar… Raise the roof. - A.D. Posey
For almost 18 years you’re taught to sit down, shut up, and raise your hand. Then you have to decide what you’re going to do for the rest of your life. - Lavon Curtis
We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. - Barack Obama