Quotes about Ladder
And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
— Genesis 28:12
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— St. Augustine
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
— St. Augustine
All of those shortcomings are the result of character, not capacity. Character growth determines the height of your personal growth. That's the Law of the Ladder.
— John Maxwell
Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.
— James Allen
God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends.
— Tullian Tchividjian
It is the proper function of the theologian to go back and forth, like the angels on Jacob's ladder, between heaven and earth and to weave continually new connections between them.
— Hans Boersma
If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
— Henry David Thoreau
If you find yourself climbing the ladder of success, be careful or else on your way up you might pass Jesus on his way down.
— Shane Claiborne
So the angels went to the shepherds. Men who didn't have a reputation to protect or an ax to grind or a ladder to climb. Men who didn't know enough to tell God that angels don't sing to sheep and that messiahs aren't found sleeping in a feed trough.
— Max Lucado
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
— St. Augustine
God taught Joshua the key to people's success is not the rung they reach on the corporate ladder but the level of intimacy they reach with God.
— Henry Blackaby