Quotes About Light

To truly feel gratitude is to sprawl out into the light of the present. It is happiness, I think. To be indebted is to fixate on the future.

This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.

Once he began to speak, the sound of it was so compelling that you focused all your thoughts upon the words, and not upon the man who uttered them. It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not only as it brings cold and fear, but also as it gives rest and shade.

I can't stand dark and dreariness in a house. We have enough of it in our lives without creating it for ourselves

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

Ik heb intussen het 3e Hoofdstuk voltooid, vol verguldsel, paars licht, Eeeuwig onvervulde liefdesverlangens, Jongens op bromfietsen, motregen en met oude canapé kleden behangen grotten. Het leven is veel groter dan ik het ooit zou kunnen beschrijven. En God is gek op me.

Theology is the happy science concerned with the task of pointing to him whose yoke is easy, whose burden is light. Theology is not in the business of absolutizing itself, but rather of pointing beyond itself to the one who gives

We are blind to God unless he shines his light in our hearts. We are terrified of him unless he reveals his love. We are lost from him unless he makes a way.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

Chissà se la luna di Kiev è bella come la luna di Roma, chissà se è la stessa o soltanto sua sorella… "Ma son sempre quella! – la luna protesta – non sono mica un berretto da notte sulla tua testa! Viaggiando quassù faccio lume a tutti quanti, dall'India al Perù, dal Tevere al Mar Morto, e i miei raggi viaggiano senza passaporto".

White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet (Pindar)

Things of a day! what are we and what not? A dream of a shaddow is man; yet when some god-given splendor falls, a glory of light comes over him and his life is sweet

It is rescue work, this snatching of vanishing phases of turbulence, disguised in fair words, out of the native obscurity into a light where the struggling forms may be seen, seized upon, endowed with the only possible form of permanence in this world of relative values—the permanence of memory. —JOSEPH CONRAD

Here in London, however, without the manacle of her tragedies, divorced even from her name, her identity feels so light it might simply float away.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.

air cannot flow out of the room, only in. There they are bathed in blue ultraviolet light, which kills viruses. After that, they tug on

Antiguo oficio humano, este de querer apagar la luz. ¿Te acordás de la última vez que creímos poder iluminar la noche?.

An infinite body, according to us, is neither potentially nor actually mobile, neither light nor heavy potentially or actually.

Thirdly, it will be propounded that every star hath motion even as hath our own and those others which are so near to us that we can sensibly perceive the differences in their orbits and in their motions: but those suns, bodies in which fire doth predominate, move differently to the earths in which water predominateth; thus may be understood whence is derived the light diffused by stars, of which some glow of themselves and others by reflection.

Un borracho busca bajo un farol la llave que ha perdido: un transeúnte caritativo se ofrece para ayudar al pobre achispado a encontrar la llave perdida. Al cabo de un buen rato de buscar sin éxito alguno la llave bajo el farol, el señor compasivo, algo fastidiado, dirigiéndose al borracho le pregunta: "Pero, ¿está usted seguro de haberla perdido aquí?" Y el otro replica: "No, pero es que donde la he perdido está muy oscuro para buscarla"» (Nardone 1988, p. 154).

Jesus is the color that creates the light. God is the light that creates the color." Giovanni Gambino