Quotes about Light
As the source of our new life in Christ, the Holy Spirit is also, in a very real way, the soul of the Church, the love that binds us to the Lord and to one another, and the light that opens our eyes to see all around us the wonders of God's grace.
- Pope Benedict XVI
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
You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.
- Henry B. Eyring
There's no need for shadows when the Light has come, when the Star and the Sun have appeared - and Christ is both - bringing light to day and night.
- Paul Washer
I don't mind the sun at all, I like it.
- Caeleb Dressel
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
- Tim LaHaye
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
- Samuel Johnson
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath, like space and time, make all matter gay. Even the corpse has its own beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson