Light Quotes - Page 28

• Historically, religious groups have been most effective when they have stood apart from government and critiqued the performance of government in light of their ethical traditions. When churches become cozy with the state, they lose the capacity and the will to criticize unjust policies.

  Edd Doerr

  Religious, Government, Church

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• Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

  Cory Booker

  Fighting, Battle, Heroism

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• If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.

  Leslie Ford

  Dark, Knows, Ifs

  Leslie Ford, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Anthony Gilbert (1955). “Murder comes to Eden”

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• When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

  Juanes

  Talking, Energy, Carrie

  Juanes (2013). “Chasing the Sun”, p.266, Penguin

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• As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

  Robert Boyle

  Bible, Stars, Ignorance

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• A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

  George Lillo

  Real, Men, Noble

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• My own lov'd light,
  That very soft and solemn spirit worships,
  That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine,
  Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power,
  Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair;
  The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy
  Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest
  The path of meeting or of parting love--
  Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts
  Thou smil'st in throned beauty!

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Moon, Sick

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• Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Love Is, Great Love, Desire

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.96, tredition

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• [On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Summer, Heart, Venice

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• January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

  Anne Truitt

  Feelings, Months, January

  Anne Truitt (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.

  Marietta Holley

  Book, Pursuit Of Happiness, Liberty

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• Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Smile, Moving, Learning

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• There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

  Elsa Barker

  Shining, Unattainable, Fields

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• What nonsense it is, this desire to be without limitations, this wish always to be seen in the most flattering light. We are anxious, not because we think so little of ourselves, but because we think so much of ourselves. We are anxious, not that we may appear in the worst light, but that we may not appear in the best light. Anxiety is born of self-consciousness, and it is alleviated to the exact extent that we can drop consciousness of the self.

  Jo Coudert

  Thinking, Self, Anxiety

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.144, iUniverse

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• Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse.

  Jo Coudert

  Running, Fashion, Love Is

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.156, iUniverse

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• The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

  Nancy Hale

  Dark, Darkness

  Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”

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• The heart itself is only a small vessel,
  yet dragons are there, and lions,
  there are poisonous beasts,
  and all the treasures of evil,
  there are rough and uneven roads,
  there are precipes;
  but there too is God and the angels,
  life is there, and the Kingdom,
  there too is light, and there the apostles
  and heavenly cities,
  and treasures of grace.
  All things lie within that little space.

  Macarius of Egypt

  Lying, Heart, Angel

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• no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.

  Sophy Burnham

  Laughter, Mistake, Angel

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.35, Penguin

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• The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light can be a theme.

  Mike Svob

  Elements, Shapes, Painting

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• You can tell the real Christians by their acts. They are the ones serving, the ones loving, the ones sharing whatever they have. They are withholding judgment, offering compassion, being that light they want to see in the world. They are the hands and the feet of God on earth, vessels of holiness, chalices of generosity. The next time someone calls himself a Christian, look for these qualities for the living proof.

  Jan Phillips

  Christian, Real, Compassion

  "Republicans and the Christian Vote" by Jan Phillips, www.huffingtonpost.com. Februuary 19, 2012.

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• May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.

  Jan Phillips

  Eye, Dark, Fire

  Jan Phillips, Cathy Conheim, Christine Forester, Circle of Women (2000). “A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call”, Breakthru Press

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• Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

  Carole Katchen

  Hands, Color, Movement

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• As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.

  James Vila Blake

  Giving, Sublime, Mind

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• Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Real, Merit, Immortal

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• In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.

  Sadao Araki

  Country, Past, Men

  "Up Saito!". "TIME" Magazine, December 25, 1933.

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