Quotes About Descend

Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.

Tarkin was surprised when Mas Amedda charged the car to descend. "I would have expected the Emperor to reside closer to the top," Tarkin said. "He does," the vizier allowed. "But we're not proceeding directly to the Emperor. We're going to meet first with Lord Vader.

immediately downward.

O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

The mind is a golden capstone atop the physical body. The Philosopher's Stone. Through the staircase of the spine, energy ascends and descends, circulating, connecting the heavenly mind to the physical body.

Matter and mind have this in common, that certain superficial agitations of matter are expressed in our minds, superficially, in the form of sensations; and on the other hand, the mind, in order to act upon the body, must descend little by little toward matter and become spatialized. It follows that the intelligence, although turned toward external things, can still be exerted on things internal, provided that it does not claim to plunge too deeply.

Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer! Descend with broad-winged flight, The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night!

Mab did not descend from her high seat so much as reality itself seemed to take a polite step to one side.

The great cycle of the ages is renewed. Now Justice returns, returns the Golden Age; a new generation now descends from on high.

When gravity calls, something falls.

In every line of copy we write, we're either serving the customer's story or descending into confusion; we're either making music or making noise.

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.

Our sister Sophia is the one who descended in an innocent manner to restore what she lacked. For this reason she was called life100—that is, the mother of the living—by the forethought of the sovereignty of heaven and by [the insight that appeared] to Adam.101 Through her have the living tasted perfect knowledge.102

It was so much like falling.

Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.