Jacob's Ladder Quotes

#1. Climbing Jacob's Ladder is a gutsy, glowing account of one man's encounter with a potent spiritual practice and how it transformed his life. This is a precious book - that rare combination of solid wisdom and good literature.

Larry Dossey

#2. NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Jacob's Ladder represents a bridge between Jacob's secular mindset to make it in this world and the reality of Heavenly things.

R.C. Sproul

#4. Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Huey Lewis

#6. Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,
A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

Paul Hamilton Hayne

#7. Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. And these are called a Jacob's ladder,

Scott Hildreth

#9. I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

David Mitchell

#10. Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

#11. First Principle of Biocentrism: What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. Second Principle of Biocentrism: Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be separated.

Robert Lanza

#12. And by the way, you really do suck in the romance department. Hallmark will never put that last paragraph on a card.

Alessandra Torre

#13. If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.

Jack Welch

#14. I snorted. PJ. He could've been called BJ for the way he was acting, on his knees and at the guy's beck and call.

Tijan

#15. Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.

Riff Raff

#16. Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#17. I hope people learn the power of vulnerability through my songs. I think vulnerability can save the world. Empathy helps people connect with each other.

Mary Lambert

#18. Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#19. In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

Arthur Middleton

#20. All guys are jerks but they get hotter with age and we learn to be more tolerant.

Kristen Bell

#21. Eating vegetarian doesn't mean you have to eat boring, humdrum dishes.

Marcus Samuelsson

#22. There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

Walter Lippmann

#23. Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.

Charlaine Harris

#24. I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

J.J. Abrams