Divine Condescension Quotes

#1. All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.

Peter Akinola

#2. Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Pope John Paul II

#3. Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Mark Strand

#4. The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Henrik Ibsen

#5. A great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Agatha Christie

#6. Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.

Michael Pollan

#7. That God should play the tyrant over man is a dismal story of unrelieved oppression; that man should play the tyrant over man is the usual dreary record of human futility; but that man should play the tyrant over God and find him a better man than himself is an astonishing drama indeed.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation

Mikhail Lomonosov

#9. Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones;
Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss,
The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

John Crowe Ransom

#10. Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You don't get the opportunity to do that as much in the real world.

Matt Bomer

#11. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.

Henry Miller