Quotes about Darkness

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Who among you walks in darkness, and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the Lord; let him lean on his God. Isaiah 50:10

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. Colossians 1:13

Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at dusk. Jeremiah 13:16

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12).

Oswald Chambers says, "Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.

When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same.

Sometimes what seems like the darkest step we've ever been on comes just before the brightest light we've ever experienced.

We all have our inner demons.

So long, therefore, as the object of the mystic's contemplation is amenable to thought, is something which he can "know," he may be quite sure that it is not the Absolute; but only a partial image or symbol of the Absolute. To find that final Reality, he must enter into the "cloud of unknowing"--must pass beyond the plane on which the intellect can work. "When I say darkness," says the same great mystic, "I mean thereby a lack of knowing....

But at three o'clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn't work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.