7 Quotes by James Ramsey Ullman

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.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.

To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.

I do not believe in demons,” he murmured, “but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him – and in my other father, who has climbed on this mountain before me.

He climbed through the vast stillness, alone... and yet somehow, he knew, no longer alone. For now his two fathers climbed with him.