We do not have to ascend to God; rather, the good news is…

“O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what…

— Augustine of Hippo

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

— John Milton

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation…

— Paul Gauguin

“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.”

— St. Augustine

“Anyone seeking to draw closer to God needs to curb the horizontal and ascend to God vertically,’ he said. ‘And this means giving oneself…

— Kristiane Backer

The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came…

— Martin Luther

“The Gospel of God is the Good News.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“But the Law is the prelude to the Gospel. Those broken by the Law are convinced of their need and of their inability to…

— Gene Edward Veith Jr

“To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.”

— E M Forster

Unless and until you are detached, you cannot ascend.

— Nirmala Srivastava

It is a mystic maxim that the lower in the scale of evolution a being is placed, the more certainly it responds to the…

— Max Heindel

“The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive”

— John Bunyan

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…

— Stairway To Heaven

“This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come,…

— John Bunyan

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson