Darkness Quotes - Page 20

God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.

There is no light for those who do not know darkness.

I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all.

In the times of darkness, the Glory will stand out even more.

To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you.

Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.

The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it.

Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look.

This is the fourth age, the Kali Yuga, and it's a time of great darkness. At the end of this age, there's supposed to be a cosmic dissolution and then life begins anew. It's a wonderful cycle of rebirth.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

That meek darkness be thy mirror, and thy whole remembrance.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what is in the darkness and showeth it to us; if I forget that it was He who granted that ray of light to His most unworthy servant, then I know nothing of Calvary love.