Quotes about Light
The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.
— Paulo Coelho
Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.
— Paulo Coelho
Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.
— Oprah Winfrey
Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.
— Thomas Merton
First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long glinting dragon-flies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
— Frederick Buechner
If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
— Frederick Buechner
I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with us along whatever road we're following. And I believe that through something that happens to us, or something we see, or somebody we know--who can ever guess how or when or where?--he offers us, the way he did at Emmaus, the bread of life, offers us new hope, a new vision of light that not even the dark world can overcome.
— Frederick Buechner
The decisive war is the other one - to become fully human, which means to become compassionate, honest, brave. And this is a war against the darkness which no man fights alone.
— Frederick Buechner