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Quotes About Light

Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.
~ Coleman Barks
If there were no sun, all the stars would not suffice to prevent its being night.
~ Heraclitus
I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
~ Herb Ritts
The absolute, immutable, and inviolable supremacy of that will of God is the light which special revelation holds before our soul's eye at the end of time.
~ Herman Bavinck
There is enough light for those who only desire to see and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition. There is enough clarity to illumine the elect and enough darkness to humble them. There is enough darkness to render the reprobate sightless and enough clarity to condemn them and to render them inexcusable.
~ Herman Bavinck
whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom and independence, and degrades himself to an instrument for an alien and unknown power.
~ Herman Bavinck
Ka disa pseudoepoka paqeje, gjate te cilave edhe veprimet me te mira na duken te dyshimta dhe na ngjallin nje mosbesim te fshehte, ku edhe vete meshira na duket si shtazeri. Nga ana tjeter, ka periudha gjate te cilave imoraliteti i paskrupullt, gabimet, padrejtesite, vesi dhe krimi formojne sfondin e nje tabele sublime, ngazellyese, dhe sherbejne vetem per t'i dhene asaj nje vule vertetesie. Sa me te erreta jane njollat, aq me te ndritshme duken vendet e ndricuara.
~ Unknown
Ich wusste nicht, wie das Licht verschwindet, obwohl ich eine ganze Stunde hinsah. Er sagte, es gäbe Sachen, die eben nicht in die Augen gehen.
~ Herta Muller
At that hour the moon is almost entirely eaten away; it doesn't know where to go after reaching the city. The sky has to loosen its grip on the earth as day begins to break. The streets run steeply up and down, and the streetcars travel back and forth like rooms ablaze with light.
~ Herta Muller
Na aldeia, o dia inteiro fica escuro, disse ele. Não amanhece e nem anoitece. Não há um alvorecer e nem um entardecer. O crepúsculo está no rosto das pessoas.
~ Herta Muller
A star's shine comes from the inside. Its there inside you now,you just have to beileve in yourself.
~ Unknown
Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire. He creates life by diminishing the Darkness.
~ Hideaki Anno
Steep are the seas and savaging and cold In broken waters terrible to try; And vast against the winter night the wold, And harbourless for any sail to lie. But you shall lead me to the lights, and I Shall hymn you in a harbour story told. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is that in which I mean to die.
~ Hilaire Belloc
It is a wan morning, low unbroken cloud; the light, filtering sparely through glass, is the color of tarnished pewter. How brightly colored the king is, like the king in a new pack of cards: how small his flat blue eye. There
~ Hilary Mantel
There is air between their ribs, their flesh is honeycombed with light, and the marrow of their bones is molten with God's grace.
~ Hilary Mantel
Stafford.' He backs the stranger into the light. When he sees his face, not
~ Hilary Mantel
We strove for a name, while the light of the lamps burnt thin and the outer dawn came in, a ghost, the last at the feast or the first, to sit within with the two that remained to quibble in flowers and verse over a girl's name.
~ Hilda Doolittle
And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
I wanted to house myself in SL's thinking. It was so big and well lit, like a large house sitting solid on the bank of a river.
~ Hilton Als
It's your words that gave me courage. It became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. -Jellal Fernandes
~ Hiro Mashima
Let these flowers of light bloom in your hearts!
~ Hiro Mashima
Too much light would mean danger, but if it were too dark, I would not be able to make sure that the person I was meeting was really Major Taniguchi.
~ Hiroo Onoda
Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.
~ Unknown
Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put in out.
~ Unknown