Quotes About Illumination

The light shines brighter on our path.

When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Turn away no more.Why wilt thou turn away?The starry floor,The wat'ry shoreIs giv'n thee till the break of day.

Here it was always the lightthat mattered, and only the light. Once, it had seemedthe objects mattered: the light was to see them by.Examined, they yielded nothing, nothing real.They were for seeing the light in various ways.They gathered it, released it, held it in.In them, the light revealed itself, took shape.Objects are nothing. There is only the light, the light!

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I keep [a] subject constantly before me," Newton once remarked, "and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

Long after dark, the moon rose, full. All the stars around it vanished as if the moon were a bucket that had scooped them up, filling itself to overflowing with their silver light.

the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. "Intelligence services," the man had said, "are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it's dark.

As Chuang Tzu put it: "In the deep dark the person alone sees light."87

To see the smallest means to be clear. To guard wisdom means to be strong. If one uses one's light in order to return to this clarity one does not endanger one's person. This is called the hull of eternity.64

Light is the shadow of God.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

God's first creature, which was light.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.