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How to use the word DESCENDS in a Sentence?

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As mankind descends into the depths of evil, echoing the times of Joshua, prayer emerges as the singular force capable of summoning God's intervention for our deliverance from the clutches of the malevolent. In the face of our own contemporary challenges, let our collective prayers rise as a beacon of hope, seeking divine mercy and guidance to navigate the shadows that threaten to engulf us.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
2 months ago

Theology I would say can be described as the trajectory of the sacred parabola, where faith ascends into the cosmic heights and descends into the depths of existential contemplation. In this divine curve, each theological reflection becomes a celestial arc, tracing the path of faith's ascent and the graceful descent into the mysteries of the divine.

Martin Tobias Lithner

added by huyenhuyen19921992
4 months ago

An audience of angels descends into the ambience, reciting praise in your glory when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet, heaven moves. That is the power of dance

Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

That which allows the flow of winds, to its rhythm descends the rain, starts yet lasts beyond melodies play. It is a dance of heartbeats, it is a dance of countless journeys. It is a dance of life's spiritual escape

Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
2 years ago

She really believes she hears the faint cries of an infant. She summons her husband, who is a self-employed grading contractor. He arrives in the area and descends about a 75-foot ravine to find the child alone with a car seat over the bank.

Scott Fowler

Found on CNN
4 years ago

[ The Supreme Court's decision ] said that the right of citizenship is not a matter of inheritance, that it never descends from generation to generation, it is related to where you're born, the Supreme Court's about the power of place. The Supreme Court has been a very expansive, and at the time, a corrective measure to a more exclusionary definition both legally as well as culturally as to what an American is.

United States

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The beauty of the world is the tender smile of Christ to us through matter. He is really present in universal beauty. Love of this beauty proceeds from God and descends into our souls and goes out to God present in the universe. It too is something like a sacrament.

Simone Weil

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

April is not my best month. There's a cloud, a weight that descends on me.

Donna Weaver

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Time advances: facts accumulate; doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Rush Limbaugh

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

Longfellow

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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