Ascent Quotes - Page 2

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

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.

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

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

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.