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Quotes About Shadow

We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.
~ David J. Morris
God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.
~ Lady Jane Grey
The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
~ Rumi
God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.
~ Ellen G. White
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.
~ George MacDonald
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
~ James Russell Lowell
With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.
~ Beth Moore
Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
~ Umberto Eco
Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
~ Margaret Atwood
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
~ Robert Breault
It is better to hide under the shadow of the righteousness of Almighty God than seek refuge in shelter of sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In this world everything changes except good deeds and bad deeds; these follow you as the shadow follows the body.
~ Bhikkhu Bodhi
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
~ John Bradshaw
The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Barack Obama is not only going to reside in Washington and be on call, essentially, with the Drive-By Media, he's setting up what essentially is going to be a shadow government.
~ Rush Limbaugh
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
~ Isabel Allende
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
~ Zadie Smith
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
~ Christopher Golden
You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.
~ Rumi
And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.
~ Robert Bridges