Light & Darkness Quotes

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

Give light and people will find the way.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.

Sunlight is painting.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

What is to give light must endure burning.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.