Mount Quotes
272 quotes by 225 authors
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We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he…
— Arthur Keith
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We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good…
— John Steinbeck
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He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.
— Henry Graff
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In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the…
— David Cortright
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Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The…
— Charles Sturt
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If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is…
— Heidi Baker
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The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount…
— Oswald Chambers
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Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. [...] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our…
— Peter Kreeft
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The mountain is not something eternally sublime; it has a great historic and spiritual meaning to us. It stands for us as the ladder of…
— Jan Smuts
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I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally…
— Yuichiro Miura
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The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.
— Jahangir Khan
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Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
— Clara Lucas Balfour
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No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of…
— Mary Karr
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O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can…
— Walt Whitman
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the…
— E. M. Forster
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BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he…
— Cecil B. DeMille
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It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just…
— John le Carre
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Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed…
— Max Lucado
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The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life…
— John Quincy Adams
Who Wrote These Mount Quotes
225 authors contributed a total of 272 Mount Quotes, led by these top contributors: