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We rise up to God in pride, while God descends to us in humility. — Michael S. Horton

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror. — Henning Mankell

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race. — Hal Boyle

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust. — Mahatma Gandhi

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. — Jean Paul

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — Louise Colet

God, who oft descends to visit men
Unseen, and through their habitations walks
To mark their doings. — John Milton

History without politics descends to mere Literature. — John Robert Seeley

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. — Julien Green

I cry as the laughter inside me drowns
and descends
into the water
with the ghosts of our union. — A.P. Sweet

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil. — Billy Graham

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual. — Kahlil Gibran

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. — William Rounseville Alger

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. — Mark Hopkins

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time — Dean Cavanagh

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it. — Philip Yancey

The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you. — Tyler Cowen

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. — Laozi

A region where grey twilight ever descends, never falls on wide sagegreen pasturefields, shedding her dusk, scattering a perennial dew of stars. — James Joyce

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ... — Dean Koontz

Who do they become when night descends, a cool puff of smoke, and vampires come out to party? — Ellen Hopkins

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. — Rumi

Having the certitude of a succession of days ... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. — Paul Gauguin

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light — Osho

Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends. — Banana Yoshimoto

Character matters; leadership descends from character. — Rush Limbaugh

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. — Seneca The Younger

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him — John Calvin

No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state. — Nilakanta Sri Ram

When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker

Until the spirit of might descends upon us, we will not be able to push through the enemy's walls of containment. — Guillermo Maldonado

When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come, — George R R Martin

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity. — Raisa Gorbacheva

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil. — Pope Benedict XVI

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. — Jerome Bruner

God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. — Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow

The remainder of the afternoon went by in the gentle gloom that descends when relatives appear ... — Harper Lee

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from. — Benvenuto Cellini

A weeping grey sky
descends on my umbrella-
Bright daffodils dance. — A.K. White

And said the Guide, 'One am I who descends
Down with this living man from cliff to cliff,
And I intend to show Hell unto him. — Dante Alighieri

Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved. — Soren Kierkegaard