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Quotes About Light

The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.
~ Joseph Alleine
Let me see you, O Light of my eyes. Come, O Joy of my spirit; let me behold you, O Gladness of my heart. Let me love you, O Life of my soul. Appear unto me, O my great delight, my sweet comfort, O my God, my life, and the whole glory of my soul. Let me find you, O Desire of my heart; let me hold you, O Love of my soul. Let me embrace you, O Heavenly Bridegroom. Let me possess you.
~ Joseph Alleine
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The moon shows the truth of things.
~ Joseph Delaney
Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.
~ Joseph Epstein
I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile.
~ Joseph F. Girzone
SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything was gauzy and indistinct, like there was a white scrim over everything. She wondered whether she'd fallen back asleep for several hours.
~ Joseph Finder
Just as the light of a single candle can dispel the darkness of a thousand years, the moment we light a single candle of wisdom, no matter how long or deep our confusion, ignorance is dispelled.
~ Joseph Goldstein
so funny. The sun was shining into part of
~ Joseph Jacobs
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
~ Joseph Joubert
La France vivant, saignante, est toute dans les profondeurs. C'est vers l'ombre qu'elle tourne son visage inconnu et vrai. Peuple que, dans les catacombes de la révolte, forme sa lumière et trouve sa propre loi.
~ Joseph Kessel
The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish." - The power of your subconcious mind
~ Joseph Murphy
they envisage the Infinite Being Himself (infinitum), but they do not envisage Him in an in finite manner (infinite). As a keen eye, says Richard of Middletown, 77 perceives the same color more dis tinctly than a weak eye, so the saints' supernatural power of vision is proportioned to the measure of their merits, that is to say, to the different degrees of the light of glory vouchsafed to each, although they all be hold the same object. 78
~ Joseph Pohle
And in the evening concealed fluorescent tubes light the room so evenly that it is no longer illuminated, it is a pool of luminosity.
~ Joseph Roth
Die Schatten waren eben Körper geworden und warfen eigene Schatten.
~ Joseph Roth
through the crack
~ Erin Hunter
Without light, you will have only your instincts. Follow them and if they are true, you will be safe." "What if they are not true?" "Then you will die in darkness.
~ Erin Hunter
In rock and pool, in air and light on water, through fall of prey and cry of kit, through scrape of claw and beat of blood, we hear you.
~ Erin Hunter
The massive warrior had appeared around the edge of a bramble thicket. His tabby pelt shone with a strange light that reminded Lionblaze of the sickly glow of fungus on dead trees.
~ Erin Hunter
With this life I give you hope," she announced solemnly. "Even on the darkest night, it will be there, waiting for you.
~ Erin Hunter
So mine is for bravery, even when you are walking into shadows. There will always be light, even in the darkest night.
~ Erin Hunter
They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the Clans will survive beyond the memories of his memories. This is how it has always been, and how it will always be.
~ Erin Hunter
From this moment she will be known as Brightheart, for though her body has been gravely injured, we honor her brave spirit and the light that shines on within her.
~ Erin Hunter
I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.
~ Erma Bombeck