Quotes About Shining A Light

#1. She was shining a light on us, she was coming into being, endlessly being formed and reformed as the muscles in her face worked at smiling and speaking, as the electronic dots swarmed.

Don DeLillo

#2. Parting message: Don't be afraid of shining a light. Don't be afraid of being powerful. Don't be afraid of being more special.

Dolores Cannon

#3. Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you.

Ricky Maye

#4. He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness.

Erik Tomblin

#5. Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

Lily Cole

#6. A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance.

Debbie Ford

#8. How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?

Ryan Lewis

#9. The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea.

David Icke

#10. Shining a light creates shadows,

Michael Lewis

#11. When you are discouraged, do not look down. Hold your head up high and you will see the face of God shining a light into your dark place.

Janet Autherine

#12. Oodles of light what a beautiful sight
Both of God's eyes are shining tonight

John Prine

#13. There'll always be Christmas as long as a light
Glows in the window to guide folks at night,
As long as a star in the heavens above,
Keeps shining down ... there'll be Christmas and love.

Edna Jaques

#14. Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness.

Ephrem The Syrian

#15. Where ever fear shadows ... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.

Jonathan Dos Santos

#16. Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.
They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple ... away from the shadows, away from the darkness.

Umair Naeem

#17. There is a light within each person, and it lights up the whole universe. If it does not shine, there is darkness.

Elaine Pagels

#18. Sometimes life begins like a bad dream and ends up like a kid's fairytale. The kind our
grandmothers used to tell us about sitting next to a fireplace, with their white braids shining under
the fire's light. They knew that even in an era like ours, there is nothing wrong with dreaming..

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#19. It's only people who truly love that are like stars, and their light keeps shining on us after they are gone.

A.G. Roemmers

#20. I'm different. I will give you my treasure chest of darkness first. If you can handle that, then I'll bring out my shining moons. If one cannot handle the darkness, then one should not deserve the light. I have no interest in "trapping" anyone into a silken web. I have no silken web.

C. JoyBell C.

#21. What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!

Augustus William Hare

#22. Ignorance could be said is written in bold letters all over the institution that is supposed to be a shining light to the world

Sunday Adelaja

#23. As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

John Legend

#25. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Shakti Gawain

#26. We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world.

Virgil Goode

#27. When you have become the Embodiment of Gratitude, think about how Pure the Water that fills your Body will be. When this happens, you Yourself will be a Beautiful Shining Crystal of Light.

Masaru Emoto

#28. So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by.

William Shakespeare

#29. Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

Hillary Carlip

#30. It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

Maxfield Parrish

#31. Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

Washington Irving

#32. You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly as you choose.

Sean Faircloth

#33. Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Swami Vivekananda

#34. I shall remold my consciousness. In this new year I am a new person. And I shall change my consciousness again and again until I have driven away all the darkness of ignorance and manifested the shining light of Spirit in whose image I am made.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#35. Vibrate on a frequency that embraces the gifts, growth, and change of others.
Accept challenges & failures as part of your journey. Find your light and let it shine. Know your purpose.

Casar Jacobson

#36. There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE.

Katy Perry

#37. The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#38. Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her chamber, illuminating everything around her in silvery light. That was when she noticed for the first time that there were bars on her window.

Margaret George

#39. It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.

Lynn A. Robinson

#40. Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.

Brigitte Gabriel

#41. Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

Augustus William Hare

#42. And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our hearts
Felt the warmth

Bryonie Wise

#43. Evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.

David Zindell

#44. A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

William Powell

#45. Her heart swelled with the high holiness of it all. Imminence was all around. She was both warrior and shining spear. She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.

Kate Atkinson

#46. She was wearing blue jeans and a dark blue peasant blouse, the ties of the neck open. She looked so beautiful and soft, with her big brown eyes and her light brown hair shining in the afternoon light. He couldn't see the pink streak, and he had an incredible urge to find it.

Sarah Addison Allen

#47. You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was true wasn't. And when the truth is seen, there's nothing you can do to make the lie true for you again.

Byron Katie

#48. As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all

Fela Durotoye

#49. I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

Benjamin Zander

#50. When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

Chogyam Trungpa

#51. A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

Jim DeMint

#52. The sun was shining with the kind of brilliant, silvery light you sometimes find in the middle of a truly beautiful day; an almost imperceptible iridescent mist hovered in the air and all the fresh colours of June were intensified, looked richer and softer, as if reflected through a prism.

Irene Nemirovsky

#53. How can I appreciate light from an aging
sun shining through new configurations neither pine
nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
fragrances from the spires, the spicules
of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?

Pattiann Rogers

#54. Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley Maclaine

#55. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Francois Guizot

#57. I wanna tell the whole world about a friend of mine / This little light of mine, I'm feelin' let it shine / I'm feelin' take y'all back to them better times/ I'm feelin' talk about my mama if y'all don't mind

Kanye West

#58. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#59. No matter what you are physically, male or female , strong or weak, sick or healthy , everything is not as important as what you have in the heart . If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior . All those other things are just the glass of the lamp , but you're the light shining inside.

Cassandra Clare

#60. Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Wilferd Peterson

#61. A glimpse of light reflected in his eyes. Stars shining there perhaps. Or the moon.

Jenny Downham

#62. O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and soul, part of your body, so that - being mere darkness - I'll lose myself and become night as well, without any dreams as stars within me, nor a hoped-for sun shining with the future.

Fernando Pessoa

#63. You have light within you, Styx, and I feel it shining through like the rays of the midday sun. It is beautiful. You are a good man.

Tillie Cole

#64. Are you Jesus in the flesh, a shining light to others? - Georgeanne Falstrom

Gary Chapman

#65. The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Yann Martel

#66. Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Paul Gauguin

#67. 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

#68. A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Claude Bernard

#69. There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

Glen Campbell

#70. We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us.

David Gianadda

#71. I was once in darkness, but now, I see a bright light on my path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#72. Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork ... My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.

Alfre Woodard

#73. God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

M. Scott Peck

#74. A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Denis Waitley

#75. Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

Roger Scruton

#76. Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches.

Dean Koontz

#77. Nathan McEuen's light is shining bright. A fine singer, guitarist and an excellent songwriter. There is hope on the horizon.

Chris Hillman

#78. In a world of illusion, art is the soul shining through with the light of infinite potential.

Ka Chinery

#79. He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Anonymous

#80. Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

Mariah Carey

#81. Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

Kathleen Parker

#82. Rise above ... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#83. They [the stars] just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that's fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening.

M.L. Stedman

#84. I remember the first time I saw the stars. I thought they changed everything. I thought they changed me, like I'd become a different person just by seeing shining specks of light a million miles away. Now when I stare at them, I feel nothing. I don't believe in them anymore.

Beth Revis

#85. Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

Robert Hunter

#86. Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

Abdu'l- Baha

#87. There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#88. She opens her eyes slowly. It takes her a moment to adjust to the bright kitchen light, shining in her eyes. "Can we rearrange the furniture this weekend?" she asks sleepily. "So when I sleep out here, you don't shine all of Satan's fiery hell lights in my eyes first thing in the morning?

Lisa McMann

#89. The night has come and yet the light is still shining. A warmth is present and life is still great. No darkness can put out the light of truth. It remains forever. The heart is still full within the redeemed and love is always strong. Praise Jesus.

Calvin W. Allison

#90. Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

Madeleine L'Engle

#91. I don't look at myself as a hero I look at myself as just another person who's on the path. I have got a light in front of me shining and I have got other people in front of me with their light shinning for me, I have got people behind me with their light shinning for me.

John Assaraf

#92. [The lives of others come together in fragments. A light shining off a separate story can illuminate what had remained dark.

Lauren Groff

#93. We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's clean streets and walks.

Stephanie Vaughn

#94. You can't encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

Earl Scruggs

#95. Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person's darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#96. They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead - ghosts risen from their graves - not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As

Joe Hill

#97. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?

Margaret Atwood

#98. The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

Margaret Atwood

#99. It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#100. Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

John Ruskin