Quotes About Ascent

He started up the ladder. When he was nearly

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind

humans sometimes could be elevated to the ranks of those gods.

Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.

During the first century after Jesus' death, his followers interpreted his cosmic role—his posthumous descent into the Underworld, his ascent to heaven, and his invisible reign as universal king—in terms that echoed some ancient traditions about Greco-Roman gods and heroes.

Love lift us up where we belong.

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Dalla cima di una salita si vedono le cose lontane. Non che ci s avvicini al cielo, [...] perchè da qualunque altezza, pure dalla sommità dell'Everest, [...] il cielo resta remoto ed irraggiungibile. Dalla sommità di una salita si sta solo distanti dalla terra, raggiungendo il suo ultimo gradino. [La faccia delle nuvole]

For centuries this psalm was sung on the road as throngs of people made the ascent to Jerusalem for festival worship. Our imaginations readily reconstruct those scenes. How great to have everyone sharing a common purpose, traveling a common path, striving toward a common goal, that path and purpose and goal being God.

Traveling in the way of faith and climbing the ascent to Christ may be difficult, but it is not worrisome. The weather may be adverse, but it is never fatal. We may slip and stumble and fall, but the rope will hold us.

Backslider was a basic word in the religious vocabulary I learned as I grew up. Exempla were on display throughout the town: people who had made a commitment of faith to our Lord, had been active in our little church but had lost their footing on the ascent to Christ and backslid.

A failed attempt on a virgin face of an eight thousander gives me much more than the successful ascent of a known route.

Where do these stairs go? They go up!

There is always the underground rapper people enjoy, and you want to see him come up. That's kind of how it is in wrestling.

Viata este un munte. Atata timp cat urci, te uiti spre varf si esti fericit, dar cand ajungi pe creasta, zaresti dintr-odata coborasul si sfarsitul care este moartea. E foarte departe cand urci, dar e foarte aproape cand cobori.

His life, like every other life, could be graphed: an ascent that rises to a peak, pauses at a particular node, and then descends. Only the gradient changes in any particular case: this child's was steeper than most, his descent swifter. We all ripen. We are all bound by the same ineluctable law, the same mathematical certainty.

People think this is easy to be a football player. They only see the summit but they don't see the ascent, which is far longer and tougher than the career peaks. And there are so few of us to reach the summits. Some might earn €305,000 per month but there are a lot more for whom life is hell.

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that.

If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

At Peter's court, the tournament of power would be still more vicious. The prizes were glittering, the ascent vertiginous, the descent sudden and the end often lethal.