Light Quotes - Page 190

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.

I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.

Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.

A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.

The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.