Character Quote by Thomas Guthrie

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions.…

— John Ortberg

We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look…

— Simone Weil

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

— Rose of Lima

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

— Sholem Asch

There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a…

— Rumi

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

— John Ortberg

The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly…

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural…

— Jonathan Edwards

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

— Seneca the Younger

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

— Harold S. Kushner

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