Darkness Quotes - Page 28

Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Darkness exists to make light truly count.

We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the question must be to what shall we owe our indenture? Will it be to truth or to falsehood, hope or despair, light or darkness? I choose to serve the light, even though that bondage often lies in darkness.

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

Darkness is the absence of light. Absences do not exist. Sin does not exist .

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Light always underestimates the viciousness of Darkness

Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to the charm of horrors new.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

Rebellion against God results in being cast out of his service. God doesn't run the affairs of the spiritual world or our world with rebels on his payroll. They are cast to the Underworld (in the case of the Eden rebel), or a special place in the Underworld (e.g., the offenders of Genesis 6:1-4, who are, to quote Peter and Jude, "kept in chains of gloomy darkness" or "sent to Tartarus"). There are more divine rebels than that in the Bible, but hopefully that scratches the surface enough.

The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers are, by definition, also part of the spiritual world. So are God and Christ.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.

In the midst of death life persists.

In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.

One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness.

When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?