But they put it on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house: in like manner, it is the design of God that every Christian should be in an open point of view; that he may give light to all around, that he may visibly express the religion of Jesus Christ.
—John Wesley
I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.
—D. L. Moody
Wise and holy people, the teachers of humanity, simply manifest that which is common to all people. The light they emit is nothing more than the revelation of the power that’s hidden within every human being.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wise and holy people, the teachers of humanity, simply manifest that which is common to all people. The light they emit is nothing more than the revelation of the power that’s hidden within every human being.
—Leo Tolstoy
Let us cast off the graveclothes of our former lusts, and wear the garments of light and life.
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
—Heraclitus
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
—Georg Hegel
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
—Leo Tolstoy
Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
—Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, ‘divine.’
—Carl Jung
He that walks in the light of new obedience, he hath communion with God, and in his presence is fulness of joy for ever; without it, there is nothing but darkness, and wandering, and confusion.
—John Owen
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
—John Milton
That light of God’s countenance, which can pervade the walls and dissipate the gloom of a dungeon, is unspeakably preferable to all that can be enjoyed in a palace without it.
—John Newton
Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.
—Heraclitus
“All that puzzles us now will become plain to us in the light of the Lamb.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Use your own light and return to the source of light.
—Laozi
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
—Nikolai Gogol
Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
—Seneca
Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power
—Laozi
To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
—Blaise Pascal
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
—Socrates
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
—Blaise Pascal
Truth will ultimately prevail where pains is taken to bring it to light.
—George Washington
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler.
—John Milton
But I need solitude–which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
—John Milton
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
—William Shakespeare
Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.
—Thomas Aquinas