Sunday, April 20, 2014

Quotes about Light and Darkness

A Happy Easter to you all!

  • I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. ― Jesus Christ
  • The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God. ― Thomas Merton
  • It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. ― Peter Benenson
  • Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ― Anne Frank
  • When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. ― Ursula K. Le Guin
  • How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. ― William Shakespeare
  • It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. ― Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.  ― Martin Luther King Jr.
  • We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. ― J.K. Rowling
  • Fear can only grow in darkness. Once you face fear with light, you win. ― Steve Maraboli
  • Love is not consolation. It is light. ― Simone Weil
  • Light, Light, The visible reminder of Invisible Light. ― T.S. Eliot
  • You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world. ― Oprah Winfrey
  • Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch. ― Wynonna Judd
  • But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.  ― Rick Yancey
  • Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred... ― Yehuda Berg
  • Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home. ― Thomas S. Monson

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