quotes about Ascent
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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.
-- Bayard TaylorSource : Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.67, The Floating Press
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
-- Dean Koontz -
The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.
-- Dion Fortune -
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
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Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.
-- John G. Lake -
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
-- Karen Armstrong -
Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.
-- Krista Tippett -
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In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit, and the only bit of material I ever wore was the strip of sari cloth around my hips, which was so useful for making into a bag to collect coconuts on walks.
-- Lucy Irvine -
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation
-- Matt Chandler -
The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
-- Niall FergusonSource : Niall Ferguson (2008). “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World”, p.9, Penguin
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As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.
-- Paul A. BaranSource : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.298, NYU Press
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Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
-- Publilius Syrus -
A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song
-- Royal Robbins -
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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
-- T. D. Jakes -
The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned
-- William Carlos Williams -
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
-- Tito Colliander -
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The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.
-- Daniel S. GreenbergSource : Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press