Shining Quotes - Page 8

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them.

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

May the star of Bethlehem shine in your path.

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

Make hay while the sun shines.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

The light that shines the farthest will shine the brightest at home.

When we leave Mass, we ought to go out the way Moses descended Mt Sinai: with his face shining, with his heart brave and strong to face the world's difficulties.

When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

The sun don't shine in your TV!

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Life isn't about the cherished moments it is also about the hard ones. Just knowing each day that you will arise with the bright shining sun in your eyes. And end with the cool breeze upon your face as you slowly reflect the day that passed by.

The sun shines upon good and bad alike.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.