Quotes about Rays
His radiance was like the sunlight; rays flashed from His hand, where His power is hidden.
- Habakkuk 3:4
As, when the sun shines above the earth, the shadow is spread over its lower part, because its spherical shape makes it impossible for it to be clasped all round at one and the same time by the rays, and necessarily, on whatever side the sun's rays may fall on some particular point of the globe, if we follow a straight diameter, we shall find shadow upon the opposite point, and so, continuously, at the opposite end of the direct line of the rays shadow moves round that globe,
- Gregory of Nyssa
As the sun, when he rises upon the earth, liberally imparts his rays of light to all, so did Constantine, proceeding at early dawn from the imperial palace, and rising as it were with the heavenly luminary, impart the rays of his own beneficence to all who came into his presence.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
A shriveled humanity has a shrunken capacity for receiving the rays of God's love.
- Brennan Manning
Morn, wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand unbarr'd the gates of light.
- John Milton
Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson