Quotes related to Matthew 5:16
He doth much who loveth much. He doth much who doth well. He doth well who ministereth to the public good rather than to his own.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is better to illuminate than merely to shine. Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
VISIBILITY - You've got to find a way to make people know you're there
— Nikki Giovanni
Bring those parcels,' he said, nodding his head at the things Nancy had done up for them to take to the Lighthouse. 'The parcels for the Lighthouse men,' he said. He rose and stood in the bow of the boat, very straight and tall, for all the world, James thought, as if he were saying: 'There is no God,' and Cam thought, as if he were leaping into space, and they both rose to follow him as he sprang, lightly like a young man, holding his parcel, on to the rock
— Virginia Woolf
There's light enough for wot I've got to do.
— Charles Dickens
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
— Charles Dickens
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
— Charles Dickens
Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me.
— Charles Dickens
The sunset struck so brilliantly into the travelling carriage when it gained the hill-top, that its occupant was steeped in crimson.
— Charles Dickens
it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
— Charles Dickens
Love must be as much a light as a flame.
— Henry David Thoreau
Love and light are the essential fruits of a Christlike life.
— James Garlow