Quotes about Light
We are traveling in the light, toward God who is rich in mercy and strong to save. It is Christ, not culture, that defines our lives. It is the help we experience, not the hazards we risk, that shapes our days.
— Eugene Peterson
Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ. Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!
— Eugene Peterson
The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one. Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!— came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by. The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn't put it out.
— Eugene Peterson
As the sun, when he rises upon the earth, liberally imparts his rays of light to all, so did Constantine, proceeding at early dawn from the imperial palace, and rising as it were with the heavenly luminary, impart the rays of his own beneficence to all who came into his presence.
— Eusebius of Caesarea
Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
— Eric Metaxas
Every peace-filled moment you experience brings terror to the powers of darkness.
— Bill Johnson
I can't afford to live in reaction to darkness. If I do, darkness has had a role in setting the agenda for my life. The devil is not worthy of such influence, even in the negative. Jesus lived in response to the Father. I must learn to do the same.
— Bill Johnson
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light,even though for the moment you do not see.
— Bill Wilson
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the Light, although for the moment you do not see.
— Bill Wilson
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
— CS Lewis
A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation." Sabbaths 1999 IV
— Wendell Berry
To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
— Charles Spurgeon