Quotes
Quotes about Light
Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
And this I know: whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite,
One Flash of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright.
Why may not a goose say thus: "All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon, the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me; I have such an advantage by the winds and such by the waters; there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me. I am the darling of Nature! Is it not man that keeps and serves me?"
'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith,--that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism. When the "cross" became the "foolishness" of the cross, it took possession of the masses.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. The modern separation of enlightenment and virtue, of thought and conscience, of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and common crowd is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
A lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
The light of the body is the eye.
They made light of it.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
The true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was a burning and a shining light.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
Show thy servant the light of thy countenance.
