Quotes about Light
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The power of philosophy floats through my head.. light like a feather, heavy as lead.
— Bob Marley
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
— Walt Whitman
The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.
— Marianne Williamson
Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.
— Billy Graham
This Truth, therefore, that the Kingdom of God is within us, that its light is solely the Lamb of God, its Spirit solely the Spirit of God, stands upon a Rock, against which all Attempts are in vain.
— William Law
You have seen, that the Properties of Nature are, and can be, nothing else in their own Life, but a restless Hunger, Disquiet, and blind Strife for they know not what, till the Property of Light and Love has got Possession of them.
— William Law
Wonder not therefore, Academicus, that all the Work of our Salvation and Regeneration is, by the Scripture, wholly confined to the Operation of the Light and Spirit of God, living and working in us.
— William Law
For the Life of the Creature, whilst only creaturely, and possessing nothing but itself, is Hell; that is, it is all Pain and Want and Distress. Now nothing, in the Nature of the Thing, can make the least Alteration in this creaturely Life, nothing can help it to be in Light and Love, in Peace and Goodness, but the Union of God with it, and the Life of God working in it, because nothing but God is Light, and Love, and heavenly Goodness.
— William Law
And thus the Work of our Salvation is wholly and solely the Work of the Light and Spirit of God, dwelling and operating in us.
— William Law
For you are to observe, that Body begins not from itself, nor is any Thing of itself, but is all that it is, whether pure or impure, has all that it has, whether of Light or Darkness, and works all that it works, whether of Good or Evil, merely from Spirit.
— William Law