Brightness Quotes - Page 2

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

Money refused loose its brightness.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.