Ascension Quotes

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all your philosophers and all your ontologists, and that's the direction.

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere —are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Whether or not you believe that after three days of being dead and entombed, Jesus got up and walked out of his own accord, what you cannot argue about is the fervent belief of the followers that this happened.

Step by step the ladder is ascended.

I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel lift under its wings. It's a magical feeling to climb toward the heavens, seeing objects and people on the ground grow smaller and more insignificant. You have left that world beneath you. You are inside the sky.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.

"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven located somewhere in the sky. My knowledge of the size of this universe reduces that concept to nonsense."

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens.

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.