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Quotes About Illumination

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Education brightens a darkened world.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Enlightenment is light.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
~ William Hazlitt
Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.
~ John Milton
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.
~ Tom Wolfe
May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.
~ Margaret Mary Alacoque
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
~ Gautama Buddha
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
~ Alexandre Dumas
True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light
~ Eric Metaxas
We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
It is at night that faith in light is admirable.
~ Edmond Rostand
The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.
~ Martin Luther
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
True knowledge illuminates and liberates while ignorance veils your wisdom and holds you in bondage.
~ Unknown
Life is the light that is everywhere. You need to grab its focus.
~ Unknown
Scoprii che Achille non era sempre così serio come sembrava. La sua compostezza imperturbabile nascondeva un altro volto, divertente e sfaccettato come una gemma che catturava luce.
~ Madeline Miller
Il ressemblait à un orage d'été, dont la foudre illumine le ciel pâle. En sa présence, tout le reste s'estompait.
~ Madeline Miller
When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.
~ Maggie Nelson
She then leans over and thrusts the edge of the letter into the sconce burning on the wall of the stairwell. For a second or two, it seems the flame cannot believe its luck, refusing to consume the page. Then it comes to its senses, asserting its grasp, turning the edges of the paper black, shrivelling and devouring them.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.
~ Mal Peet