Light Quotes
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I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished. (Quote by - Bible)
Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes. (Quote by - Richard Watson Gilder)
And God said: Let there be light: and there was light. (Quote by - Bible)
Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light (Quote by - Zoroaster)
Shadow owes its birth to light. (Quote by - John Gay)
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (Quote by - Bible)
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. (Quote by - Henri-Frederic Amiel)
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it (Quote by - Margaret Fuller)
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light. (Quote by - John Milton)
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. (Quote by - John Milton)
If God created shadows it was to better emphasize the light. (Quote by - Pope John XXIII)
Moonlight is sculpture. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
To light a candle is to cast a shadow (Quote by - Ursula Le Guin)
We put the politics of conscience in the spot light. (Quote by - Andrew Neil)
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. (Quote by - Dorothy Thompson)
My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on! (Quote by - Davy Jones)
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. (Quote by - Theodore Roethke)
A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it. (Quote by - Austrian Proverb)
No place is more delightful than one's own fireside. (Quote by - Marcus T Cicero 106BC)
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. (Quote by - Bible)
The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. (Quote by - Jawaharlal Nehru)
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. (Quote by - William Hazlett 1778)
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. (Quote by - Ruth Rendell)
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. (Quote by - William Styron)
Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give me a thousand kisses. (Quote by - Caius Valerius Catullus)
The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight, The blackness of that noonday night. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray, Was light from Heaven. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light. (Quote by - David Hockney)
Light is the symbol of truth (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. (Quote by - Mary Gardiner Brainard)
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. (Quote by - John Milton)
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. (Quote by - John Milton)
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. (Quote by - Arlo Guthrie)
A living system cannot replicate at the speed of light. (Quote by - Tony Follari)
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out? (Quote by - Rene Descartes)
Children always turn to the light. (Quote by - David Hare)
A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light (Quote by - Ovid)
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. (Quote by - Francois FéNelon)
Never fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere. (Quote by - Jonathan Santos)
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best. (Quote by - R. Turnbull)
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. (Quote by - James Thurber)
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)
Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
For I light my candle from their torches. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. (Quote by - Johann Sebastian Bach)
He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. (Quote by - Bible)
In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. (Quote by - pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro)
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! (Quote by - John Milton)
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. (Quote by - Omar Khayyam )
