Spiritual Light Quotes

• Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

  Alexis Carrel

  Spiritual, Men, Light

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• The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Living in the Light: Follow Your Inner Guidance to Create a New Life and a New World”, p.217, New World Library

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• Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Yoga

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Obscure, Deny

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Education, Teacher

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337

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• You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Positive, Stars

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

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• There will always be a spiritual light that beckons to us, giving us the hope of rescue and relief.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Spiritual, Light, Giving

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• The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Light, Gathering

  Twitter post from Nov 12, 2014

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• When you possess light within, you see it externally.

  Anais Nin

  Beauty, Light, Within You

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• What is to give light must endure burning.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.57, Souvenir Press

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• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Life, Strength, Courage

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• Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

  Norm Rice

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Light

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Light, Waiting

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• Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spiritual, Twilight, Feelings

  "Hyperion" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1853.

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, God, Christian

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