John Of The Ladder Quotes

#1. It's like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

John Trudell

#2. Bondurant was no expert on where sex between consenting adults on cathedral grounds fit in the grand hierarchy of sins in the Catholic faith. But he figured it must be high up the ladder of mortal sins, ones that required serious contrition and confession to a priest. Bondurant

John Heubusch

#3. I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. The willingness to become the answer to the needs of other people is what makes a person really successful

Sunday Adelaja

#5. But this - this is a ladder to climb to the stars." Lee's eyes shone. "You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.

John Steinbeck

#6. A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb
if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

John Shirley

#7. To succeed, you have to be open to problems. You have to be open to failure. And as you go up the ladder, you gain the right to get more problems.

John C. Maxwell

#8. As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven ... As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

John Climacus

#9. To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

John Glenn

#10. When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.

John Climacus

#11. I feel like I'm sleeping when I'm awake, and really living when I'm asleep.

Michael J. White

#12. When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance ...

John Keats

#13. Flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness. - John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Step

Neal Stephenson

#14. I don't understand why doctors don't advise everybody to lay on twenty extra pounds while they've got the chance. I might not advocate outright obesity, but there's a reason for fat - it's a resource.

Lionel Shriver

#15. Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

Kanye West

#16. I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

Ridley Scott

#17. Thought is an amazing thing: it can be a mirror, a lens, a bridge, a wall, a window, a ladder or a house. There is nothing in the world that has the cutting edge of a new thought.

John O'Donohue

#18. Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

Carolina Herrera

#19. And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Patrick Dempsey

#20. This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Al Capone

#21. The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

John Ortberg

#22. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.

John Ross Macduff

#23. When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

John H. Johnson