Mountain Quotes - Page 16

you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

It isn't so much that God is the unified state of consciousness that each of us came from and will return to, but more so that God is the creative energy flowing between all states of consciousness. God is in the land beyond the mountains, but God is also in the mountains and in the valley of illusions cradled within the mountains. God is not one thing or another, rather God flows between and through all things.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew is coming. You drink it, you get a combination of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

I would love to go and see the Himalayan Mountain Kingdoms. There are very few left now. I would loved to have gone to Tibet and Nepal. And there are still parts of central Asia that are utterly unexplored.

The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.

The man of humanity delights in mountains

Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

In the mountains, fatigue is the biggest controllable limitation that will come between you and success.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

When we speak of faith—the faith that can move mountains—we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.