Quotes about Enlightenment

Humility is the light of understanding.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

For a frequent intercession with God, earnestly beseeching him to forgive the sins of all mankind, to bless them with His providence, enlighten them with His Spirit, and bring them to everlasting happiness, is the divinest exercise that the heart of man can be engaged in.

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son.

Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.