Ascent Quotes

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.

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.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

I plot my ascent daily.

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

The descent beckons as the ascent beckoned

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

Everything that rises must converge.

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.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it’s more of a cerebral ascent.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

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.

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

It is not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

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.

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

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

As Hegel well knew, the ascent of reason has never followed a straight line.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

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.

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

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

Intellectual ascent to correct doctrine is not salvation

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

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

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.