Ascents Quotes

#1. This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

Terence McKenna

#2. How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

Robert Southwell

#4. Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#6. When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!..

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. When we get christened or married or die, we drift naturally in the direction of the church. And in moments of crisis, when our spiritual Tom-Tom is no longer telling us what to do, we find ourselves scrabbling at the vicarage door.

Tom Hollander

#8. I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#9. I pray that former rejection and deep hurts will not color what I see and hear now.

Sue Augustine

#10. I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess ... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

Octavia Spencer

#11. Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence . If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

Matthew Henry

#12. We must stop relying on our human strength, instead seek grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita