Quotes about Gradual

Nature's kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don't get as scared as we should.

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Resting is the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually. It's very dangerous to rest all of a sudden.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

The history of mankind before his birth must be viewed as a preparation for his coming, and the history after his birth as a gradual diffusion of his spirit and progress of his kingdom.

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.