Quotes About Ascent

A modern school of historians contends that the so-called Dark Ages were a period of ascent rather than of decline, that with the withering of the pagan classic civilization came the first budding of a new culture that was to develop into our modern civilization.

Hope and fear are two wings by means of which those who are brought near fly to every commendable station, and two mounts on which every steep ascent of the paths of the next world is traversed.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

On peut s'arrêter quand on monte, jamais quand on descend.

True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead.

Those who prophesy more than indefinite cycles of decline and ascent are hiding some suspicious product they want to sell for cash.

Nations have two noble modes of existence—ascent or decadence—and one vulgar mode—prosperity.

What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

It's not a hill it's a mountain, as you start out the climb

Confidence comes with mastery, and the combination enables me to reach new heights.

Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

dissatisfaction with the nation's political and economic condition, along with fear of communism, the votes for which also were rising, clearly had more to do with Hitler's ascent than hatred of Jews.

And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

At the Fountain Gate they climbed the steps of the City of David on the ascent to the wall and passed above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction: