Russell M. Nelson

We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.

American Clergyman

George Saunders

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

American Writer

Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

French Poet

Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

British Philosopher

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.

American Author

Ezra Taft Benson

Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.

American Leader

Stephane Mallarme

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

John Ralston Saul

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

Canadian Author

Frans Timmermans

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

Dutch Politician

Phillips Brooks

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Use 'exaltation' when the happiness is beyond regular joy, often for a significant event.

Context Dependent

'Exaltation' indicates a high level of happiness that usually comes from a profound success or achievement.

Intensity Matters

Reserve 'exaltation' for special moments; overusing it for minor joys dilutes its impact.

Avoid Overuse

'Exaltation' often refers to formal or ceremonial upgrades in status, not regular promotions.

Formal Occasions

The word emphasizes the honor and prestige associated with being raised in rank or position.

Conveys Honor

In some contexts, 'exaltation' might carry cultural or religious connotations of glorification.

Cultural Significance

'Exaltation' in astrology refers specifically to a planet's strongest position, not mere alignment.

Astrological Term

A planet in exaltation is believed to express its best qualities and have a positive influence.

Astrological Strength

 In some way the eternal God must be able to enter into the souls of human beings and experience the torment within. And if this is true, it must also be that God knows the joy and exaltation