Quotes about Luminous
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
— Pope Benedict XVI
All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.
— Victor Hugo
A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him: this heaven was his conscience.
— Victor Hugo
Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.
— Albert Einstein
If our faith is alive and luminous, we will be alert to moments, events and occasions when the power of the resurrection is brought to bear on our lives.
— Brennan Manning
A saturated meadow, Sun-shaped and jewel-small
— Robert Frost
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.
— Victor Hugo
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
— John Milton
Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
— Walt Whitman
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
— Ralph Waldo Emerson