Quotes About Ascent

Lo que amas hallará el modo de alzarte de la tierra, muy alto, hasta sus respuestas alegres y amedrentadoras para todas las preguntas que puedas formular.

And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires is the right person to, shall we say, effect the launch." -Miss Endicott.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

It's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

To get over a mountain, you have to climb it.

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

When mankind is drowning in a multitude of problems, swimming is not the solution. The solution is reaching higher ground which is the ultimate salvation.

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

Every hill becomes a mountain when one has to climb up it.Getting to the top is the manna of life.AL/fd

Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

God does not stop giving Himself over to us, in His deifying manner, until He has become flesh in us and our flesh has become God by participation, as fully as possible, in Him. This deification of our being is a transforming, mystical ascent: God is transforming us through the operations of His hierarchies. The ones being transformed are, in their turn, acting members of the hierarchies.

But there are times — my favorite climbs — when it doesn't feel as if I'm climbing. Instead, the cliff or tree or wall seems to be lifting me, higher and higher.

The tendency of the world is down - God's path is up.

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.