There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
—Carl Jung
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
—Henry Ward Beecher
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
—Plato
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
—Aristotle
In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs.
—Charlie Chaplin
Clearness and glory, Lord,
Art Thou to me;
Light of my soul, lead on,
I follow Thee.
All through the moonless night,
Making its darkness bright,
Thou art my Heavenly Light—
Praise, praise to Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
Beauty and battle—both are of Thee.
Lighten mine eyes till I joyfully see
Beauty in all that Thou givest to me,
Lord of the light.
—Amy Carmichael
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
Happy, happy souls! which the grace of God has visited, ‘has brought out of darkness into his marvellous light’, and ‘from the power of Satan unto God’.
—William Wilberforce
Oh may God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, so shine through us now, that something of Him may be seen and felt by the people pressing around us!
—Amy Carmichael
O may I spend my time profitably, and above all, may I grow in grace, in love and be made more meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.
—William Wilberforce
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
—Marcus Aurelius
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
The sufferings of His soul were the very soul of His sufferings. Did Christ bear such a burden for me with unbroken patience and constancy, and shall I shrink back from momentary and light afflictions for Him?
—John Flavel
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
Trust in him at all times, in the dark as well as in the light.
—D. L. Moody
God never led anyone astray yet, or into error yet; He leads out of darkness into light; He leads from bondage into liberty; He leads from error into truth.
—D. L. Moody
It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
Augustine
Scripture causes us to become aware of God where we would otherwise not see him; through its light, we behold God’s attributes, spread out in all of the works of his hands.
—Herman Bavinck
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
—Charles Dickens
The rulers of this world will endeavour to put you under bushels; but if your light is of GOD’s kindling, all the devils in hell shall not be able to extinguish it. Be not therefore, my brethren, weary of well doing.
—George Whitefield
The rulers of this world will endeavour to put you under bushels; but if your light is of GOD’s kindling, all the devils in hell shall not be able to extinguish it. Be not therefore, my brethren, weary of well doing.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
When I consider it is for JESUS CHRIST, who has called me by his free grace into his marvellous light, and has promised to be with us always, even unto the end of the world, a divine fire kindles in my heart, and I long to call the lingering battle on.
—George Whitefield
Sin so hardens and dulls the soul that it appears unsupportive of the plainest reason and clearest light and unmoved by things of the greatest and most immediate concern.
—Jonathan Edwards
Christ is the joy of the soul, and if the soul be rejoiced and filled with divine light, such joy no man can take away; whatever outward misery there be, the Spirit will sustain it.
—Jonathan Edwards
All *spiritual* revelation is by Christ. He is ‘the true Light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,’ John 1:9.
—John Owen
The evening was quiet and bright. A long strip of sea blackened on the horizon, and on its shore the rocks burned in the reddish light, and on one of the rocks the white walls of the second battery and the entire fortification glistened. I admired my seven-year prison.
—Taras Shevchenko