Quotes About Darkness

running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Ordinarily, when we reach out and share ourselves--our fears, hopes, struggles, and joy--we create small sparks of connection. Our shared vulnerability creates light in normally dark places.

Somente quando temos coragem suficiente para explorar a escuridão, descobrimos o poder infinito de nossa própria luz.

Experience doesn't create even a single spark of light in the darkness of the middle space. It only instills in you a little bit of faith in your ability to navigate the dark. The middle is messy, but it's also where the magic happens.

He was a dark man, not very old, and very hard in an English way that tries to be dignified and a member of a master race that would burn a black man alive or put a pregnant woman out the side of the road in the interests of stern duty.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

TO BE GRATEFUL for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of God in the face of the marvels, cruel circumstances, obscenities, and commonplaces of life is to whisper a doxology in darkness.

The death of Jesus Christ on the cross is His greatest single act of unwavering trust in His Abba's love. He plunged into the darkness of death, not fully knowing what awaited Him, confident that somehow, some way, His Abba would vindicate Him.

That in the end, my sin will never outweigh God's love. That the Prodigal can never outrun the Father. That I am not measured by the good I do but by the grace I accept. That being lost is a prerequisite to being found. That living a life of faith is not lived in the light, it is discovered in the dark. That not being a saint here on earth will not necessarily keep you from being in that number when the march begins.

It remains a startling story to those who never understand that the men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their imperfect existence.

It is Christ offering the opportunity of a lifetime: "I have come into the world as light, to prevent anyone who believes in me from staying in the dark any more" (John 12:46).

grace abounded more because I could find it in the darkness as much as in the light.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

Ya sé que la noche no es parecida al día, que las cosas ocurren de otra manera, que las cosas de la noche no pueden explicarse a la luz del día porque entonces ya no existen; y la noche puede ser espantosa para una persona sola tan pronto como se dé cuenta de su soledad; pero, con Catherine, no había, por decirlo así, ninguna diferencia entre el día y la noche, sólo que las noches eran aún mejores que los días.

I intend to die with a bottle of champagne by my bed. I'll drink a toast to the fact that, despite everything, I was able to experience the singular adventure of being born, living and one day disappearing into the darkness once again.

Någonstans ute i mörkret, borta vid de lömska Stökgrunden slog en osynliga gädda en virvel, och mot öster, där gryningen brukade komma skrek en uppretad tärna. Kanske också fåglar hade mardrömmar?

Ocurre una y otra vez, y ocurrirá siempre. El hombre pone en marcha nuevos proyectos sin tratar de hallar la cara oscura que puedan ocultar.

Sometimes, in my darkest moments, I'm afraid it might never again obey me, but I haven't given up hope altogether.

Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts to manage his life.