Mountain Quotes - Page 34

• Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

  William Ralph Inge

  Trust No One, Hiking, Challenges

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• Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

  Peder Soerensen

  Discovery, Valleys, Earth

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• A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

  William Sharp

  Wind, Giving, Green

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The Winged destiny. Studies in the spiritual history of the Gael”

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• This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

  Curtis Armstrong

  Money, Ideas, Snow

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• Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries, and possess all knowledge; even if you have the faith to move mountains, without charity it won't profit you at all.... Without charity-or the pure love of Christ-whatever else we accomplish matters little. With it, all else becomes vibrant and alive.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Moving, Differences, Alive

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• If you never play you will never lose, but you won't win either. If you never climb a mountain you will never know for sure how good the view is.

  Debbie Shapiro

  Winning, Views, Play

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• We are like the explorers of a great continent, who have penetrated its margins in most points of the compass and have mapped the major mountain chains and rivers. There are still innumerable details to fill in, but the endless horizons no longer exist.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Science, Rivers, Details

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• Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Ocean

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• Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

  David

  Gratitude, Growing Up, Rain

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• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Nature, Heaven, Inspire

  Elizabeth Aston (2006). “The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Mean, Science, Air

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific

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• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.

  Eduard Suess

  Life, Science, Mountain Ranges

  Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”

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• [Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.

  Julian Coolidge

  Country, Science, Mountain Peaks

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• The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

  David Trimble

  Distance, Dark, Past

  "Peace 1996-2000". Book by Irwin Abrams, 2005.

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• Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again

  Tage Danielsson

  Doubt, Atheism, Remove

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• Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fire

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• On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you'll see who you are.
  On a clear day, how it will astound you
  That the glow of your feelings outshines every star.
  You will follow every mountain, sea and shore,
  You will see from far and near a world you've never seen before.
  On a clear day, on a clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Spiritual, Stars, Sea

  "Song: 'On a Clear Day'". 1965.

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• We show our adoration by going to visit Christ in the tabernacle or exposed in the monstrance. Would it not indeed be a failing in respect to neglect the divine Guest who awaits us? He dwells there, really present, He who was present in the crib, at Nazareth, upon the mountains of Judea, in the supper-room, upon the Cross. It is the same Jesus who said to the Samaritan woman, 'If thou didst know the gift of God!'

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Guests, Rooms

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Memories, Rocks, Perspective

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• Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Men, Land

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• So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention

  Nicki Minaj

  Hurt, Waiting, Needs

  Song: Catch Me, Album: Gold

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• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Science

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. So climb slowly, enjoying each passing moment; and then the view from the summit will serve a more rewarding climax for your journey.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Motivational, Beautiful

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• Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Happiness, Spring, Heart

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