self-exaltation

We have not the first reason for self-congratulation and self-exaltation.

How is God's self-exaltation and glory connected to His love for creation?

To this comic self-exaltation, the mirror comes as an astringent corrective.

The king of Assyria has heard prophetic warnings against his self-exaltation and being a law to himself (25).

Self-reproach gave place to his usual self-complacency and self-exaltation.

The emotions it suggests are of a different nature: arrogance, audacity, defiance, self-exaltation.

God would keep him from self-exaltation.

For a gang that purported to hate pretense, it's hard to think of a group more intent on self-exaltation.

Both, through self-exaltation were smitten with incurable sin.

But some, not keeping to the pure gift, have in the creaturely cunning and self-exaltation sought out many inventions.

Here she forms the Demiurge (the Proarchōn), a composite of ignorance and self-exaltation.

Such depreciation leads to exaltation, and the contrary course of self-exaltation leads to abasement.

The world often exhibits the human tendency of self-exaltation, and the Ordnung provides a way for the Amish to refrain from such behavior.

It is the last consequence of an anti-Christian racial doctrine that destroys nations, and of a boundless self-exaltation.

This conflict originated in heaven when a created being, endowed with freedom of choice, in self-exaltation became Satan, God's adversary.

We are trash and the descendants of trash, and we must put aside all mystical self-exaltation and accept reality, these people said.

From self-glorification, from self-exaltation we rise superior to the incapacity of disquieting fear: the ridiculer to destruction of humility in repentance.

-an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire.

The oboes play a motif, rising in sequences, which becomes a vocal theme of a fugue, illustrating the haughty self-exaltation in the first half of the Gospel text.

Because of his self-exaltation he began to despise the nature of God, His lack of showmanship, His desire to remain hidden, the need for humility by all who were in the highest places.

It is impossible for us in our own strength to maintain the conflict; and whatever diverts the mind from God, whatever leads to self-exaltation or to self-dependence, is surely preparing the way for our overthrow.

But to wish to know and search out such things bringeth no fruit, but it rather displeaseth the Saints; for I am not the God of confusion but of peace;(3) which peace consisteth more in true humility than in self-exaltation.

So far as the guilt of Jews in the death of our Saviour is concerned, the rejection of the Messiah by His own, is according to Scripture, a mystery-a mystery given us for our instruction, not for our self-exaltation.

There are literally millions of my fellow Baptists and others who believe every word of this vision, based on self-exaltation of the chosen few along with the condemnation and abandonment, during a period of "tribulation," family members, friends, and neighbors who have not been chosen for salvation.

Pope Gregory I wrote to the Byzantine Emperor Maurice in A.D. 597, concerning the titles of bishops, "I say with confidence that whoever calls or desires to call himself 'universal priest' in self-exaltation of himself is a precursor of the Antichrist."