Quotes About Illumination

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us and then we'll need no other light.

We first observe how dreary and disagreeable an overclouded day is when a single sunbeam pierces through, and offers to us the exhilarating splendor of a serene hour.

If orthodoxy (which literally means "right teaching") proclaims a single, authorized set of answers, we celebrate instead the open mind. We trust that our own thoughts and experiences can be as illuminating as the thoughts and experiences of those who came before us. Not that our answers will therefore be superior.

The illumination of   our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith   flows from regeneration as from its source; but since it is by the same   faith that we receive Christ, who sanctifies us by his Spirit, on that   account it is said to be the beginning of our adoption.

In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory

Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear.

Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.

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

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you're secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street lighting.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

Follow and study for the information and knowledge to brighten your way of life, wherever you find that.

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jumped and spun. Ten paces back along the path stood a luminous woman dressed in

The world looked particularly crisp and etched-out in the sunlight.

God is the light bulb, to where faith is the light switch.

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.

Will you be lighting the lamp, or is it the entire night you expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss.