Quotes About Light

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat

I don't want to live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.

How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then.

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule

Igual que algo que se hunde y reposa sobre el fondo de un lago al que no llega la luz, así escapan los recuerdos a nuestro alcance. Pero si alargas el brazo lo suficiente bajo la superficie del agua, tus dedos rozarán aquello que los ojos no ven. Cógelo y tráelo a la superficie, donde la luz volverá a iluminarlo.

I had a little light. I blew on it, trying to turn it into a torch, but I blew a bit too hard and put it out.

The three of us, each paralyzed in his own silence, contemplate the horizon, which the dawn lights up with a thousand fires; and each of us knows for certain that the rising sun of this day, like all those that have gone before it, will be incapable of bringing sufficient light into the hearts of men.

Moshen has gradually stopped dreaming. The light of his conscience has gone out.

I suppose that in a dark room, even a dim bulb feels bright.

In an average life lived by a relatively average soul, what else remains but singular moments of astonishingly framed light?

our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

The light within glows strongest in the darkness.

He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

Blest be the God of love, Who gave me eyes, and light, and power this day, Both to be busy and to play. . . . My God, Thou art all love. Not one poor minute escapes Thy breast, But brings a favor from above; And in this love, more than in bed, I rest. Amen. —GEORGE HERBERT (1593–1633)

Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art: Thou my best thought by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. .

Take me, I pray Thee, O Lord of my life, into Thy keeping this night and for ever. O Thou light of lights, keep me from inward darkness; grant me so to sleep in peace, that I may arise to work according to Thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —LANCELOT ANDREWES (1555–1626)

O gracious Light, pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven, O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed! Now as we come to the setting of the sun, and our eyes behold the vesper light, we sing Thy praises, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Thou art worthy at all times to be praised by happy voices, O Son of God, O Giver of life, and to be glorified through all the worlds. Amen. —PHOS HILARON (LATIN HYMN, 4TH C.)

At the Lamb's high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King, Who hath washed us in the tide Flowing from His pierced side. . . . Mighty Victim from the sky, Hell's fierce powers beneath Thee lie; Thou hast conquered in the fight, Thou hast brought us life and light;

Yours, O Lord, is the day, Yours also is the night; cover our sins with Your mercy as You cover the earth with darkness; and grant that the Son of Righteousness may always shine in our hearts, to chase away the darkness of all evil thoughts; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —ANONYMOUS

The softening strands of light dulled the ragged blossoms of the hedgerows into a smear of sameness.

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