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Quotes About Illumines

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
~ James Thurber
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
~ Pierre Loti
history - the lamp which illumines national character...
~ Lawrence Durrell
Love inspires, illummines, designates and leads the way.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
The same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
One cannot mount from reality to the righteousness of God, because reality can only be known through the explaining word of revelation. The Light that illumines the world is found only in faith.
~ G.C. Berkouwer
One man illumines you with his other sets in you his sorrow.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Rightly known, God illumines all reality, all human experience, all revelation, and all religion
~ Thomas C. Oden
By the term short story I mean the recital of a destiny which is represented in a single incident; by anecdote the recital of a single incident which illumines an entire destiny.
~ Martin Buber
Each one of us has his shining hour in the events of his century. On one occasion it may be Monseigneur of Kent, on another Monseigneur of Lancaster, some other on a previous occasion and yet another on a later, whom the event illumines because of the decisive part he plays in it. Thus is made the history of the world.
~ Maurice Druon
When one comes to the essence of being, The shining wisdom of reality Illumines all like the cloudless sky.
~ Milarepa