Quotes about Enlightenment

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

In the most general sense of progressive thought, the Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.

To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed?

They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

The wise still seek Him.

Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.He that loveth her loveth life.