Quotes about Light

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Remain faithful to the light... Remember, the sun is shining behind the clouds.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

It seems so antithetical to the teachings of Christ to proclaim your faith in public. I mean, of course you're not supposed to hide your light under a bushel.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe

We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the run itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those starts of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament where they may be seen evening or morning? The light which we have gained was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!