Quotes About Light

We must beg the Holy Spirit, with ardent longing, to give us these fruits. The Holy Ghost alone knows how to bring to light the sweetness hidden away under the rugged exterior of the words of the Law. We must go to the Holy Ghost for interior guidance.

Praise to thee, my Lord, for all thy creatures,Above all Brother SunWho brings us the day and lends us his light.

Love is the saving grace. It's the buddha in you standing up and saying, "Even though it's dark, I have this jewel.

I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life but I am more interested in it, more engaged you might say. When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

There is no single way to serve God, but the point is this: We each have only one life to live to tell a story about Him, about His ways, about His love. And if we are Christ followers, then God calls us to use our gifts, to exercise our faith, and to become salt and light right where we are.

Even as the tiny, temporary lights of city streets, cars, and signs seem to snuff out the powerful stars, so the false lights and values of this world can darken our minds to the grandeur and brilliance of God.

Education is not about enacting a prescriptive, boxed sort of curriculum-based classroom, but instead is about passing on a legacy of a love for learning, an independent joy in discovery, a motivation to bring light, beauty, and goodness back into the world of our children.

And so the first part of my tale is told, and with it a candle goes out.

Wij zijn slechts schimmen die korte tijd mogen dansen in het licht.

You don't need to find the light, you ARE the light; and when you let your personality shine you can light up the world.

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

We are all of the same substance, the same life. Though there are many differences between us, those are merely the shadows that delineate our boundaries. Our light is the same.

Good always triumphs over evil, even though it can take a while. Light always overcomes darkness, even though it can seem awfully dark.

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Long may our land be brightWith freedom's holy light;Protect us by thy might,Great God, our King!

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.