Quotes About Luminary

I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.

The moon set. The sun rose.

One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

People may be impressed with this celebrated personality or that evangelical icon, but the evangelical luminary doesn't have a clue about your church, what they need, and what God wants you to communicate to them as they move toward maturity in Christ. And that's good!

The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor.

Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, the Ari, said,8 "Whoever does not shed tears during the Ten Days of Repentance—his soul is imperfect." The simple meaning of this is that during these days G-d is close to every Jew9 with, in the Chassidic phrase,10 "the closeness of the luminary to the spark.