Quotes about Enlighten
Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.
— Billy Graham
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
— St. Augustine
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:
— Jonathan Edwards
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
— John Calvin
It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity in the soul, before it can grow properly.
— Pope Benedict XVI