If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.
You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.
. . . a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.
It's amazing that more people have climbed Mount Everest than have broken the 4-minute mile.
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.
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 are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.
People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.
From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.
If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake.
As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.
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 awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).