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Quotes About Light

Daisies opened in sly lust to the sun-rays and rain-spears, and eft-flies, locked in a blind embrace, spun radiantly through the glutinous light to their ordained death.
~ Stella Gibbons
You need what I call the Gentle Powers.' 'Oh, please tell me what they are!' 'Beauty, and Time, and the Past and Pity (their names sound like a band of angels, don't they?) Laughter, too – you need calming and lifting into the light, not plunging into darkness and struggle.' She
~ Stella Gibbons
Es gibt nichts Frühlingshafteres als rostbraunschwarze Bahnhofsanlagen vor knospenden Bäumen, beschienen von praller Sonne. Die Menschen sind noch hellgesichtig, weißhalsig und bleicharmig und gleißen im Licht.
~ Sten Nadolny
According to Gnostic teaching, the world is a mixture of the seeds of light and of darkness. Though it is impossible to distinguish between them now, in the fullness of time they will separate naturally, as ordained.
~ Stephan A. Hoeller
Prive?te: lumina e alb? ca pieptul p?s?rilor de mare
~ Stephan Roll
Dull late-afternoon light glittered on the hanging copper pots in the kitchen where the old painter sat with his wine, smoking cigarette, a letter angrily crumpled on the table in front of him.
~ Stephanie Cowell
We blossom not in spite of but because of. I think of every experience as my teacher, most especially the difficult ones. I believe this is the role of suffering. Suffering cracks us open to allow for new light. Yet, we can choose to accept the light or hide under our bushel.
~ Stephanie Rutt
Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.
~ C. S. Lewis
Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error.
~ Lindley Murray
Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.
~ John Hagelin
And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
~ Joseph Joubert
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
God is truth and light his shadow.
~ Plato
I am myself: a light. In me you find your fate. So be not blind to the truth shining from my glow.
~ M. C. Escher
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
~ Victor Hugo
Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.
~ Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
Even coal shimmers in the light
~ Jocelyn Murray
...visual truth lies in the structure of light.
~ Richard Kelly
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
~ William Shakespeare
Grace is the mastery of truth, the teacher of discipline, the light of the heart, the comforter of affliction, the banisher of sorrow, the nurse of devotion.
~ Thomas a Kempis
To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.
~ Watchman Nee