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Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very close, The weary Body, longing for repose, On the gained level of the day's ascent, Halts for the night and pitches there its tent. -- Abraham Coles
Character matters; leadership descends from character. -- Rush Limbaugh
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. -- Jean Paul
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. -- Mark Hopkins
We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race. -- Hal Boyle
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
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness. -- Annette Bening
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 started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. -- Richard Price
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion. -- Matthew Stewart
Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them. -- Giordano Bruno
I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. -- James Cameron
Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built. -- Max Heindel
History without politics descends to mere Literature. -- John Robert Seeley
Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. -- Jerome Bruner
In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light -- Rajneesh
[The rain] descends with the enthusiasm of someone breaking bad news -- H. V. Morton
When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. -- Laozi
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. -- Louise Colet
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. -- William Rounseville Alger
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it. -- Philip Yancey
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys. -- Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. -- Paul Gauguin
God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings. -- John Milton
The white saucer like some full moon descends / At last from the clouds of the table above. -- Harold Monro
Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. -- Seneca the Younger
No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state. -- Nilakanta Sri Ram
The hours from 7 to 12 are your time to build for the future before the world descends on you. -- Tyler Cowen
The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity. -- Raisa Gorbacheva
How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. -- Rumi
When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time -- Dean Cavanagh
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual. -- Khalil Gibran
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race. -- Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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
Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan. -- Sam Tanenhaus
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
Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason. -- William Bernard Ullathorne
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity. -- John Dryden
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
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. -- Thomas Watson
With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system... -- Jacqueline Ripstein
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself. -- John Calvin
When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it. -- Ibn Ata Allah
... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself. -- Charles Colson
Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon. -- Ogden Nash
Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth. -- Anandamayi Ma
The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays. -- Thomas Paine
I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better. -- Halle Berry
The kundalini of the supraconscious has nothing to do with the shushumna. That light comes down, from the crown center and has nothing to do with the opening. It descends and inundates. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought. -- George Gissing
Moke Kupihea has the strength of conviction necessary to impart to the world a more sensitive account of Hawaiian kahuna heritage, which comes down to him from the priesthood line from which he descends. -- Rubellite Kawena Johnson
Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane. -- Daisaku Ikeda
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. -- Margaret Atwood

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