Darkness Quotes - Page 18

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.

My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic.

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, “She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and breaks, leaving her in utter darkness,” you would be right. But I bet you didn’t guess the part about an attack by a giant octopus.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

How can I express the darkness?

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

The darkness is a holy of holies of which no one can rob me. In the darkness I meet God face to face.

I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die . . . again. But I choose to come back, why?

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

God made nightButMan made darkness.