Quotes about light
light darkness
Where there is darkness, let there be light. Francis of Assisi
light darkness mind
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves. Francis Bond Head
light color profound
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color. Francis Chan
light shining luck
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. Francine Pascal
light way path
God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path. Francine Rivers
light honor promise
I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing Francine Rivers
light darkness remember
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light? Francine Rivers
light darkness doubt
Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. Francine Rivers
light hair circles
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine. Jennifer Egan
light air blue
After all this, what happened? What happened was that, as soon as I had the slightest chance of a place to hide in, I crept into it and hid. Well, sometimes it's a fine day isn't it? Sometimes the skies are blue. Sometimes the air is light, easy to breathe. And there is always tomorrow... Jean Rhys
light people want
You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path. Jhene Aiko
light cracks celebrate
Celebrate the cracks, because that's how the light comes in. Groucho Marx
light giving looks
When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best... And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life. Graham Chapman
light opposites clothes
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. Graham Greene
light law ideas
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond? Harriet Beecher Stowe
light sharks slave-ships
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel. Harriet Beecher Stowe
light shadow hardship
...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ... Harriet Beecher Stowe
light blue breathing
There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said. Harper Lee
light age want
I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept. Halle Berry
light childhood soul
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for every human soul there must surely be a possible childhood worth living, but once it slips by, there isn’t any reclaiming it or revising it. Gregory Maguire
light vocabulary perfect
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance. Igor Stravinsky
light tunnels achieve
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Ian Botham
light mind facts
I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. Ian Anderson
light-years towns said
I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place. Iain Banks
light names citizenship
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. Hugo Black
light shining splendor
Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. Horace
light confusion obscure
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. Horace
light now-and-then
The mob will now and then see things in a right light. Horace
light darkness
Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness. Friedrich Nietzsche
light illumination order
People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light. Friedrich Nietzsche
light offering giving
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights. George Burns
light house greek
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light. George Bernard Shaw
light darkness grows
Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left. Gena Showalter