Quotes About Light

This is America ... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.

Leaping from that other darkness Come two circles of flame-- When the pressure of your lips Made of my eyes Two suns Embracing the world with light ... It was a darkness As rich with strong wonder As the depths of the sea, And you were upon me Like great sea-gardens And great waves ...

Is there an eye of endless light For what we do and dare? Or are we playing to the night With nobody to care?

The sun has come out... and the air is vivid with spring light.

Your heart has been sore wounded too. Dear Light, love shall cherish you, till you again look on life with happy eyes.

We want God to show us the "practical" things. Who should I marry? What career should I pursue? We want guidance, but Jesus wants to give us himself. Jesus is the light of the world: he is the answer. He wants to show his glory in our lives.

Dicen que los pueblos primitivos experimentaban la noche con tanto miedo de que el Sol no volviera a salir, que cuando lo hacía, celebraban con cantos, bailes y bebidas fermentadas. Con máscaras, risotadas y un ritmo percusivo que se festejaba a sí mismo, con el color y el brillo de la luz trasladado al sonido, al movimiento... Pero ¿no era todo círculo? ¿La vida no era un círculo?

Y no es el dragón acaso el emblema permanente de la vida? El dragón es el aire, el espacio brillante y claro gracias al cual los objetos del mundo se disponen con un ritmo estable, del que extraen su arte los pintores. El dragón resuena largamente en la noche, cuando los lugares se opacan y debemos crear una pequeña luz, y dentro de ella una musiquita que nos conserve la vida mientras todo se extravía, quizás irremisiblemente.

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.

Man wird nicht dadurch erleuchtet, daß man sich Lichtgestalten vorstellt, sondern durch Bewusstmachung der Dunkelheit.

Never again look at your sins apart from Christ. You can't handle them. You'll either suppress them and deny that they're there, or if you see how bad they are, they will overwhelm you. Learn to view your mistakes, your failings, and your transgressions in the light of Jesus's forgiveness.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light.

I indignantly answered, "Do you call light what we men call the worst darkness? Do you call day night?" To this my soul spoke a word that roused my anger, "My light is not of this world." I cried, "I know of no other world!" The soul answered, "Should it not exist because you know nothing of it?

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.

Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.

Communion gives us warmth. Singleness gives us light. At immeasurable distance stands one single star at the zenith. This star is the God and goal of humanity. In this world one is Abraxas, creater and destroyer of one's world.

At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things—but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.

To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey - light on a dark background or dark on light.

R]eal liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.… By accepting the darkness, the patient has not, to be sure, changed it into light, but she has kindled a light that illuminates the darkness within. By day no light is needed, and if you don't know it is night you won't light one, nor will any light be lit for you unless you have suffered the horror of darkness.