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“Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth.”

Firsts Art Philosophy Dream Earth Heaven Steps Angel Thee Dull Reaching First Steps Sublime Alas Ladders Beckoning Patriarch

Author:Alan Judd

“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.”

Men Earth Together Heaven Taught Stones Infinite Wings Charity Brilliant Burning Contemplation Ladders Jacob Transcending

Author:Juan Donoso Cortes

“The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.”

Knows Dream Christian Heaven Christ Grace Deserve Weak Opposites Disciple His Love Ladders Prestige

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.”

Eye Heaven Prayer Angel Stones Roof Ladders Dungeons Shrines

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“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.”

Earth Pain Spiritual Heaven Meditation Errors Divinity Ladders Pathways Mystic Meditation Mind Transcendental Meditation

Book:The Way to Peace

Source: The Way to Peace

“The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.”

Enough Heaven Crosses Easter Ladders Threshold

Author:George Dana Boardman Pepper

“Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.”

Humans Wells Earth Together Certain Heaven Middle Divine Elements Connected Aspiration Splits Ladders Celestial Crippled Divine Power

Book:Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition