Quotes about Light
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
— Brigham Young
The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.
— Brother Andrew
That GOD always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but ask to please Him.
— Brother Lawrence
That in his trouble of mind, he had consulted nobody, but knowing only by the light of faith that GOD was present, he contented himself with directing all his actions to Him, i.e., doing them with a desire to please Him, let what would come of it. That useless thoughts spoil all: that the mischief began there; but that we ought to reject them, as soon as we perceived their impertinence to the matter in hand, or our salvation; and return to our communion with GOD.
— Brother Lawrence
To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!
— Herman Melville
and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
— Herman Melville
We'll drink to-night with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim, on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
— Herman Melville
eats the whale by its own light, does
— Herman Melville
Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.
— Herman Melville
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.
— Ann Voskamp
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!
— Vincent Van Gogh
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
— Jan Hus