Top 138 Ascend Quotes & Sayings

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.

I ascend from darkness And depart on the winds of space for I know not where; My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons.

By Mary, God descended from Heaven into the world, so that by her men might ascend from earth into Heaven.

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

I beg You, O my God, to be my life, my ship, my haven. You have made me ascend the cross of Your Son and I struggle to accept it as best I can. I am sure that I shall never come down from it.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

We live by Admiration, Hope, and Love; And, even as these are well and wisely fixed, In dignity of being we ascend.

When I do not play, I cannot ascend to the top level and, if I am only at 90 per cent, I cannot help my team.

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

Free soloing is just the most natural way man can climb. It's just using your hands and feet without any use of protection or rope to ascend.

We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.

Heaven...a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step and when we ascend, we will live.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse.

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Fear is something that really causes the people not to ascend within the spiritual and physical realm. Once you have Jah as a shield and a guide, you got to arm yourself and nothing can you any harm.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

It's very difficult to choose my favorite song because every night I do a show I find that sometimes one song will ascend higher than the others.

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.

In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, 'Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road' (Hab. 3:19).

Only your ascent is important. Once you ascend, everything is saved

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.