Light Illumination Quotes

#1. Whenever God wants to intervene in the affairs of the earth, he intervenes through light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom

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#2. Jesus also function on the earth through the power of light. Light, illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding, wisdom. That is their real power on earth.

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#3. There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#5. I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the time, we're just shedding light on the stuff they already know.

R.J. Palacio

#6. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.

Denise Levertov

#7. This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millennium of nights will be yours to see light as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars as if you were Prometheus an endless illumination by which to understand all things.

Anne Rice

#8. Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. For now there is only the darkness expanding and deepening, deepening into light; there is only this final peace, this consciousness of being no more separate, this illumination . . .

Aldous Huxley

#10. These relations show that the intensity of illumination is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of light.

Charles Mark Turton

#11. Illumination is nothing if you do not share it with anyone. Illumination is about spreading light across entire nations. It's about wearing that crown that shines like the sun on your head and getting other minds to synergize with yours.

Suzy Kassem

#12. The sun rises each morning to shed light on the things we may have overlooked the day before.

Tyler J. Hebert

#13. The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

Jasper Fforde

#14. A shadow archive and an archive of shadows, the literary architectonic demands a resistance to excessive illumination.

Akira Mizuta Lippit

#15. When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction.

T.F. Hodge

#16. When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship ...

Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

#17. Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

Blaise Cendrars

#18. A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

John James Cowperthwaite

#19. God is joy. Joy contains light that illuminates your entire being and those that come in contact with you.

Vivian Amis

#20. Allow sunshine and light into your rooms and life!

Bryant McGill

#21. Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.

Jaeda DeWalt

#22. this light was something else again. It buzzed and held you in its heat, it was thick, alive with pollen and insects and birds, and because nothing higher than one story interrupted its path, it gave all its gifts at once, blessing everything equally, an explosion of simultaneous illumination. "What

Zadie Smith

#23. Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.

Margaret Sanger

#24. There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression "trick of the light" applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination" .

Erin Morgenstern

#25. When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged in light between which there is not a single thread of darkness?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#26. We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies. A shining cloud is one of the most majestic of all secondary lights.

Alice Meynell

#27. I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am ... illumination.

Jaeda DeWalt

#28. Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues.

Sharon Salzberg

#29. Even the sun directs our gaze away from itself and to the life illumined by it.

Eberhard Arnold

#30. Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.

Bryant McGill

#31. We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Madeleine L'Engle

#32. The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

#33. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Bill Bryson

#34. Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of darkness.

Raphael Zernoff

#35. I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Audre Lorde

#36. One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts
they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Georg Simmel

#37. We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

Thomas Adams

#38. The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination
aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#39. Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it

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#40. Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom

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#41. People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.
We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light ... We all have something to give.

George H. W. Bush

#43. The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

Adam Gopnik

#44. I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

Jaeda DeWalt

#45. I wanted to go to acting school, and I did a few modeling jobs to pay for acting school. I never aspired to be a model. I met lots of photographers, and I learned a lot about light - as a source of love and illumination, light as a gift of love. On film, that's a massive contribution.

Jacqueline Bisset

#46. Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

Rene Descartes

#47. Lailah, always remember that you are light that bring illumination to many people across the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

Isaac Asimov

#49. Maturity understands that there's darkness in the world but that there's no need to dwell in it: we can lighten up and offer illumination to others.

Gina Barreca

#50. In a world where there were no specifically mental facts, is it not plain that there would be a complete impartiality, an evenly diffused light, not the central illumination fading away into outer darkness, which is characteristic of objects in relation to a mind?

Bertrand Russell

#51. When you suppress your darkness you also suppress your light.

Bryant McGill

#52. It is impossible to grasp another human's inner world. But even in the darkness of the densest forest, there can always be the light of a firefly.

Krupakar

#53. The beam of light flashed across her own face and she thought, Yes, me, Khady Demba, still happy to utter her name silently and to sense its apt harmony with the precise, satisfying image she had of her own features and of the Khady heart that dwelled within her to which no one but she had access.

Marie NDiaye

#54. Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians

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