Quotes about Up

All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

In this book I would like to describe how this message of falling down and moving up is, in fact, the most counter-intuitive message in most of the world's religions, including and most especially Christianity. We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. That might just be the central message of how spiritual growth happens; yet nothing in us wants to believe it. I actually think it is the only workable meaning of any remaining notion of "original sin.

You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.