Quotes about Illumination

the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, once completed, became for the church the "only external means of divine supernatural illumination.

the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, once completed, became for the church the "only external means of divine supernatural illumination.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

It seems to me that the only true Christians were the Gnostics, who believe in self-knowledge, i.e. becoming Christ themselves, reaching the Christ within, the light is the truth. Turn on the light. All the better to see you with, my dear.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

The light of faith makes us see what we believe.

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

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

The anointing, then, of believers with the Spirit consists in the collation of him upon them to this end, that he may graciously instruct them in the truths of the gospel by the saving illumination of their minds, causing their souls firmly to cleave unto them with joy and delight, and transforming them in the whole inward man into the image and likeness of it.

But that acknowledgment of the truth which affects the heart, and conforms the soul unto the will of God revealed, is not attainable in any degree without the saving illumination of the Spirit of God.