Quotes About Darkness

God nowhere holds a person responsible for having the heredity of sin, and does not condemn anyone because of it. Condemnation comes when I realize that Jesus Christ came to deliver me from this heredity of sin, and yet I refuse to let Him do so. From that moment I begin to get the seal of damnation. "This is the condemnation [and the critical moment], that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light" (John 3:19).

Dark and appalling are the clouds of war and wickedness and we know not where to turn, but, Lord God, Thou reignest.

A child of the light confesses instantly and stands bared before God; a child of the darkness says, 'Oh, I can explain that away.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

There is but one end to all the conflict, and that is death—the death of individuals, of peoples, of cultures. Our own death still lies far ahead of us in the murky darkness of the next thousand years.

Believe me, it is the light or the darkness of our own fate that either gives "greenness to the grass and glory to the flower," or leaves both sickly, wan, and colorless.

Run slowly, horses of the night.

I wasn't exactly much fun to be around. Being with me was like falling into an abyss.

My last good memory of the eighties, before everything went dark, was being sent to Wormwood Scrubs. Not because I'd broken the law again – amazingly – but because I was asked to play a gig there.

That was the end of it. Lights out. For ever.

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

mejor encender un cirio que maldecir la obscuridad. —ROBERTO FERNÁNDEZ RETAMAR

Ilumínate más, ciudad maldita. Ilumina tus puertas y ventanas Ilumínate más, luz necesita el partido sin luz de las sotanas.

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

woods in the predawn darkness, the silence only broken by the sloshing of his flask.

A man walked in long strides through the darkness toward them. Nothing but a dark silhouette, shadow against shadow, he walked down the alley with the grace of a predator.

Amazing. She had to get these vampires to bite her more often.

Dark books say to us, "This isn't about you. You are in fact alive and safe." Yes, there's an implicit and unavoidable warning, an edge of danger; these things happen, the books say. And yet, as bad as it gets inside this book, you, the reader, are securely outside. If

We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

You go through it like a dark room, you sweat, you fear, the fear passes, you come out of it and utter nothing but meaningless words about what you saw or felt.

The underground is a dangerous but potentially life-giving place to which depression takes us; a place where we come to understand that the self is not set apart or special or superior but is a common mix of good and evil, darkness and light; a place where we can finally embrace the humanity we share with others. That is the best image I can offer not only of the underground but also of the field of forces surrounding the experience of God.

when we live behind a wall, our inner darkness cannot be penetrated by the light that is in the world. In fact, all we can see "out there" is darkness, not realizing how much of it is of our own making! As a young man, the wall allowed me to cast my own darkness on others while remaining blissfully ignorant of how they saw me.