Quotes about Brilliance
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
— Ted Dekker
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
— Marianne Williamson
Dark with excessive bright.
— John Milton
Genius is born-not paid
— Oscar Wilde
The most remarkable observation one can make about this interface of exilic circumstance and scriptural resource is this: Exile did not lead Jews in the Old Testament to abandon faith or to settle for abdicating despair, nor to retreat to privatistic religion. On the contrary, exile evoked the most brilliant literature and the most daring theological articulation in the Old Testament.
— Walter Brueggemann
Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.
— Elizabeth George
As I got closer to it, it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't like any light I could describe to you. It was beautiful.
— James Garlow
Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.
— Victor Hugo
From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.
— Ezekiel 1:27
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
— Samuel Johnson
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.
— Robert Kiyosaki