Quotes About Light

There are others who have passed through life and arrive at the end point of death with only a commonplace love, and were never very perfect. These embrace my mercy with the same light of faith and hope as those who were perfect. But these have this light imperfectly, and because they are imperfect they reach out for mercy, considering my mercy greater than their own guilt.

In essence, contemplative prayer is a communication with God that isn't simply our own mental or affective effort, but has at least some dimension of "givenness" by God, some infusion of light or love or presence that transcends our own efforts.

Female) Unfolding of spatial structures and geometric patterns. Then there is a bird, a swan, light and large, who flies with me over the Earth, and the Earth is so beautiful. The Earth looks as though set with pearls, dazzlingly beautiful, and I have the thought "Oh my God, how beautiful it is." I am overwhelmed by the beauty of the Earth.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

The measurements of space and time, the photographs of far stars and of points of light which proved to be composed of thousands of stars, filled him with an awe which felt like the edge of a delicious panic.

As the light wavered into the rooms, they looked impossibly large with darkness, which seemed less still than it ought to be.

But I am here to help you realize that you are indeed an ongoing, immortal essence who has been living billions of years ever since God, your beloved Father, the totality of thought, contemplated itself into the brilliance of light, which each of you became.

Evil exists, boy," he told patient Hero, "and it will always exist in abundance, if only to give the good an opportunity to shine." He scratched Hero's skull. "Truth #4.

Cel mai r?u demon la lumina zilei poate ar?ta ridicol,dar în umbr? creÈ™te în în?lÈ›ime È™i cap?t? proporÈ›ii incredibile.

God created each one of us with a light inside. I've had sex with all kinds of people; every single person has a kind of beam inside that shines once they are touched properly.

I had tried many times to tell her that my suicide attempt was only my way of trying to escape the permanence of the sun. With frankness, and using my limited psychological knowledge and powers of articulation, I tried to explain to her that I had attempted suicide out of a kind of curiosity, or maybe as a challenge to nature, to the cosmos itself, to the recurring light. I felt oppressed by it all.

What is soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.

the light was black. It was not real light, not good light, not the light Lizzie knew, that you could read by or warm to, but a light that was made of darkness, a cancerous light, thick and smothering

The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across. —Marian Diamond