Light Quotes - Page 69

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.

You can never rise above the light you look up to.

In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life.

Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

One love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation - The house of reason is very far away!

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.

Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

Nothing in the natural world makes sense - except when seen in the light of evolution

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.

Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.

It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.