Quotes about Ascend

For "no one has ascended into heaven but He who descended" (John 3:13), that is, no one arrives at the understanding of divinity but he who has first been humbled and who has come down to an understanding of himself, for there he discovers the understanding of God at the same time.

Therefore our entire salvation and bliss are solely dependent on one Man: Christ. And here the work of our redemption is described in the three propositions: that Christ descended from heaven, that He resides in heaven above, and that He ascends into heaven again. The first one states who the person is; the second, the work He performed, the third, why He performed it.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

As Origen stated in answer to Celsus long ago, the gospel is not a matter of natural religion. It is not about the ascent of man but about the descent of God.

When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’

When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

Joash was seven years old when he became king.

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?

A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD.”

A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

A song of ascents. Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth—let Israel now declare—