Quotes about Enlightenment
Lord, give me wisdom, not knowledge. Or rather the knowledge that leads to wisdom and true happiness and not the kind that leads to power.
- Etty Hillesum
Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.
- Eugene Peterson
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.
- James Faust
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
- Thomas Jefferson
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
- DH Lawrence
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
- St. Augustine
Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.
- Robert Barron
You do your best until you know better, then you do better.
- Maya Angelou
You are not responsible for making other people "see the light," and you do not need to "set them straight." You are responsible for helping yourself see the light and for setting yourself straight.
- Melody Beattie
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so you may know what is the hope of His calling. Ephesians 1:18
- Beth Moore