Quotes About Light

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

He was a burning and a shining light.

The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

And the day star arise in your hearts.

God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

When you set in western lightland,Earth is in darkness as if in death.

The light that cometh from her [wisdom] never goeth out.

Due to budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

Se nos negam aqui o pão e o vinho, Avante! É largo, imenso, esse horizonte… Não, não se fecha o Mundo! E além, defronte, E em toda a parte há luz, vida e carinho!

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.

How does one cope with evil? Not by fighting it but by understanding it. In understanding, it disappears. How does one cope with darkness? Not with one's fist. You don't chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light. The more you fight darkness, the more real it becomes to you, and the more you exhaust yourself. But when you turn on the light of awareness, it melts.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

This was Tony de Mello at his best, proclaiming the message of "awareness," seeing the light we are to ourselves and to others, recognizing we are better than we know.

Comprende tu oscuridad, y ésta se desvanecerá; entonces sabrás lo que es la luz. Comprende tu pesadilla como tal pesadilla, y ésta cesará; entonces despertarás a la realidad. Comprende tus falsas creencias, y éstas perderán fuerza; entonces conocerás el sabor de la felicidad.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

The window glows. The slow sandy light of dawn permeates the room. Everything transient and aching; everything tentative. To be here, in this room, high in this house, out of the cellar, with her: it is like medicine.

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light.

So really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.

To be in love was to be dazed twenty times a morning: by the latticework of frost on his windshield; by a feather loosed from his pillow; by a soft, pink rim of light over the hills.

Draw the darkness ... and it will point out the light which has been in the paper all the while. Inside this world is folded another." from "Afterworld.