Quotes About Descend

And so it happens that if anyone…undertakes for himself the perilous journey into the darkness by descending, either intentionally or unintentionally, into the crooked lanes of his own spiritual labyrinth, he soon finds himself in a landscape of symbolical figures (any one of which may swallow him).

Being the firstborn gives you great patience. But you reach a point where after trying and trying you say, Patience be damned. Let them suffer their distorted worldview. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you know you owe them nothing.

Patience be damned. Let them suffer their distorted worldview. Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole.

The more we descend into the interworkings of the cell or ascend to the depths of the universe, the more we can see the fingerprint of God.

Sube o baja según se va o se viene.Para el que va, sube; para el que viene, baja.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. — Saint Augustine

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

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

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane... That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right anatomical quality. Tight blown, quivering in the blast of noisy life. It was time for him to descend from the serene empyrean of words into the actual vortex. He went down slowly. My soul is a thin, tenuous membrane...

Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Mais je croy que je Suis descendu on puiz Ténébreux onquel disoit Heraclytus estre Vereté cachée.

Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

He [Jacob] dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Phroso made no comment on this; and the moment I had said it I heard a voice below, a voice I knew very well. 'What's the ladder here for, my friend?' it asked. 'It enables one to ascend or descend, my lord,' answered Kortes's grave voice, without the least touch of irony.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

To mount and descend in the words themselves-this is a poet's life. To mount too high or descend too low, is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together. Must the philosopher alone be condemned by his peers always to live on the ground floor?

ESPARA, FORMERLY a seat of prestige only one step below Therim Pel itself, had descended from its imperial years the way some men and women descend into middle-aged lethargy, discarding the vigor and ambition of youth like a suit of clothes that can no longer be wriggled into.

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.