Quotes about Darkness
Myths inspire the realization of the possibility of your perfection, the fullness of your strength, and the bringing of solar light into the world. Slaying monsters is slaying the dark things. Myths grab you somewhere down inside.
— Joseph Campbell
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
— Abraham Kuyper
I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
— Wendell Berry
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
— Henry B. Eyring
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
— Wendell Berry
We live in a world that is lost and in a moment of intense darkness. Have we fallen asleep when our Lord and Savior has asked us to stay awake with Him? Are we sleeping in spiritually and letting momentous events and opportunities pass us by? My dear friends, let's wake up and draw close to Jesus.
— Darlene Zschech
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament, to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
— James Madison
In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?
— Rachel Hauck
Without looking, she knew the shadows in her eyes were rolled back, if not gone. Light always conquers darkness.
— Rachel Hauck
The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.
— Ray Comfort
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
— John Newton