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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

—Charles Darwin

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

—Charles Dickens

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

—Jean-Paul Sartre

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

—Carl Jung

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

—Carl Jung

“The sun may leave us, but our God never ceases to shine upon us.”

Charles Spurgeon

The sun is the width of a human foot.

—Heraclitus

The sun also shines on the wicked.

—Seneca

The sun is new each day.

—Heraclitus

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

—Charles Dickens

“[Christ’s] face is the sun, and his countenance scatters those health-giving beams, and nurturing warmths, and perfecting influences which are needful for maturing the saints in all the sweetness of grace to the glory of God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

—Henry David Thoreau

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. 

And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

—Pablo Picasso

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

Our hands be steady, then, until

The setting of the sun;

Then sudden, through the cloudy skies

The dawn shall break, the song shall rise,

The song of warfare won.

—Amy Carmichael

Is it misery to love God? To give Him my heart who alone is worthy of it? Nay, it is the truest happiness; indeed, the only true happiness which is to be found under the sun.

—John Wesley

God make us all obedient like His sun and moon and stars, and help us to shine gladly to Him who made us.

—Amy Carmichael

When an eagle is happy in an iron cage,

when a sheep is happy in water,

when an owl is happy in the blaze of the noonday sun,

when a fish is happy on dry land;

then, and not till then, will I admit that

an unholy man could be happy in Heaven.

J.C. Ryle

It’s amazing what one ray of the sun can do with the soul of a man!

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. – C.S. Lewis

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

Bound to you as the rays are to the sun.

—Michelangelo

We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. – C.S. Lewis