Truth burns and destroys all elements, showing that they are only a shadow of it.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
—Michelangelo
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
—Socrates
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
—Plato
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
—Immanuel Kant
O Thou that art fairer than the children of men, full of grace are Thy lips! Speak that I may see Thee! And as the shadows flee before the sun, so let all my idols vanish at Thy presence!
—John Wesley
What is their power, my Lord, to Thee?
Shadows of fear, oh, flee away;
I hear my Captain calling me—
Where is the night? ’Tis dawn, ’tis day.
—Amy Carmichael
A great shadow lies upon every man & every woman—the fact that our Lord was bruised & wounded & crucified for the entire human race. This is the basic human responsibility that men are trying to push off & evade.
—AW Tozer
From eternity to eternity he is who he is. There is in him no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17). God is not a process of becoming but an eternal being. He is without beginning and end, but also knows no earlier and later.
—Herman Bavinck
“God, If I cannot see the brightness of your face, the shadow of your wings will be enough for me.”
God’s people, whenever they are scorched by afflictions as by hot sunbeams, may resort to him, who is as a shadow of a great rock, and be effectually sheltered, and sweetly refreshed.
—Jonathan Edwards