Illumination Quotes - Page 8

• Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

  Joseph Campbell

  Regret, War, Ignorance

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.101, New World Library

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• I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

  Boethius

  Wisdom, Answers, Knows

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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• The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Heart, Wish

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.738, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them

  George Andrews

  Hippie, Addiction, Drug

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• Journaling is a way to be a good steward of the Spirit's illuminations.

  John Piper

  Way, Spirit, Stewards

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• Madness, and then illumination.

  Orson Scott Card

  Madness

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.292, Macmillan

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• It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.

  Charles Darwin

  Atheist, Men, Mind

  "Science and religion need a truce" by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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• The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Simple, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.248, Penguin UK

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• I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

  Steve Coogan

  Art, Creativity, Criticism

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species.

  Linus Pauling

  Determination, Science, Information

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• In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
  In Illumination, all things appear as is.
  Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
  The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

  Sheng-yen

  Two, Silence, Meditation

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• In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

  Simon Schama

  History, Narrators, Pleasure

  Simon Schama (2000). “A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603”, Miramax

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• Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing.

  David A. Bednar

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Law

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• I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for illumination.

  Alfred E. Perlman

  People, Drunk, Use

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• Through the fall our nature was stripped of divine illumination and resplendence. But the Logos of God had pity upon our disfigurement, and in His compassion He took our nature upon Himself. On Tabor He manifested it to His elect disciples clothed once again most brilliantly. He showed what we once were and what we shall become through Him in the age to come if we choose to live our present life, as far as possible, in accordance with His ways.

  Gregory Palamas

  Spiritual, Fall, Compassion

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• As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spiritual, Heart, Discovery

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.218

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• Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Drunk, Support, Use

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Sad, Depression, Demand

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

  John Adams

  4th Of July, Parades, Ends

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• The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.

  John Adams

  Sports, 4th Of July, Believe

  Letter to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776

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• Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

  August Wilson

  Strength, Pain, Angel

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• After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

  James Mark Baldwin

  Two, Germany, Half

  James Mark Baldwin (1913). “From the earliest times to John Locke.- v. 2. From John Locke to the present time”

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• How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Stupid, People, Making Love

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser p. 222, 1949.

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• Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.

  Steven Spielberg

  Tv News, Perfect, Perception

  Veja magazine interview (Brazil), 1993.

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