Top 100 Quotes About The Light Of The World
#1. I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life (John 8:12).
Will Davis Jr.
#2. Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, m I am the light of the world. Whoever n follows me will not o walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
Anonymous
#3. The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.
Joyce Meyer
#4. How impossible, how utterly absurd it would be for the disciples
these disciples, such men as these!
to try and become the light of the world! No, they are already the light, and the call has made them so.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#5. He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in.
David Letterman
#6. You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.
Paulo Coelho
#7. In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;
guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle
#8. The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! "You are the light of the world."
Charles Spurgeon
#9. How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.
Thomas Paine
#10. The light of the world had more or less taken leave of this man, for he was almost blind.
(from 'The Fish can Sing')
Halldor Laxness
#11. We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
Bob Goff
#12. You are the light of the world. Shine brightly. Smile beautifully! Rejoice daily!
Brenda M. McGraw
#13. You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We are the light of the world.
Ivan Van Sertima
#14. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.
Anonymous
#15. The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
Tim LaHaye
#16. Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.
J 'son M. Lee
#17. The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.
John Hagee
#19. To marry the Daughter of the Nine Moons!" "To die and live again, and live once more a part of what was!" "To give up half the light of the world to save the world!
Robert Jordan
#20. Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.
Isidore Of Seville
#21. Christians are to be "the light of the world" [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.
Billy Graham
#22. Jesus is the light of the world. His light shines through all darkness. His love heals all hatred. His grace and mercy forgives all sins. The anointing of his blood heals the sick and the lame. His guarding angels will forever protect you and his word will forever guide you.
Colishia S. Benjamin
#23. 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
#24. Will you follow my path and be the light of the world to shine in that darkness?
Ted Dekker
#25. If you follow the light of the world, you will never walk in darkness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Mother Teresa used the analogy of electricity: "The wire is you and me; the current is God," she said. "We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, and produce the light of the world - Jesus.
Lee Strobel
#27. We want God to show us the "practical" things. Who should I marry? What career should I pursue? We want guidance, but Jesus wants to give us himself. Jesus is the light of the world: he is the answer. He wants to show his glory in our lives.
C. John Miller
#28. Summer mornings, the light of the world pouring in and the silence. It was a barefoot life, the cool of the night on the floorboards, the green trees if you stepped outside, the first faint cries of the birds. He arrived in a suit and didn't put it on again until he went back to the city.
James Salter
#29. There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#30. The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.
Pope Francis
#31. From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.
Max Stirner
#32. Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become the light of the world must necessarily burn and become less and less. By denying self, we are able to win others.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#33. You are the light of the world. You are an instrument of the Divine. You are the greatest miracle in the world. Life is graced by your presence.
Iyanla Vanzant
#34. In the person of Your Son, You have spoken the world into being. He is the Light of the World, and through Him Light was made.
Stephen C. Magee
#35. He who walks with the Saviour, the light of the world, shall never walk in darkness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. We are God's people and our purpose is to become the light of the world and the salt of the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Happy Day After Christmas, Merry Rest of the Year, even when Christmas is over, The Light of the World is Still Here!
Matthew West
#38. Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.
N. T. Wright
#39. Remember - the light of the world will never be diminished, so long as you are brave enough to carry the flame.
Leslie Soule
#40. SPIRITUALLY ... THE WORLD DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING "GOING" BETTER THAN JESUS(!) "THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD!
Kenneth Adrian Ellis
#41. This glorious Person came down from heaven to be 'the Light of the world,' that by him the beauty of the Deity might shine forth, in the brightest and fullest manner, to the children of men.
Jonathan Edwards
#42. 12 Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life.
Anonymous
#43. Jesus Christ is the outstanding personality of our time. Every act and word of Jesus has value for us. He became the light of the world. Why shouldn't I, a Jew, be proud of that?
Sholem Asch
#44. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Anonymous
#45. To let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened!
But why turn one's head hither and thither? This is the truth. This is fact.
Virginia Woolf
#46. Nothing is too hard for our Lord God. Jesus is "the light of the world" (John 9:5) and "the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it" (John 1:5). In other words, he can handle this, even when - or especially when - we can't.
Vicki Tiede
#47. Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
Donna Goddard
#48. For within you is the light of the world - the only light that can be shed upon the Path.
Mabel Collins
#49. You can visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Your divine nature must reach out and touch the divine nature of another. Within you is the light of the world, it must be shared with the world.
Peace Pilgrim
#50. As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#51. If you walk with the light of the world, you will have the light of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell
#53. Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.
Wayne W. Dyer
#54. Each of us experiences clouds in life - sometimes slight, but sometimes dark and frightening. Whatever clouds you face today, ask Jesus, the light of the world, to help you look behind the cloud to see His glory and His plans for you.
Billy Graham
#55. Wherever you see a wall, demolish it to broaden the horizons of the world! Wherever you see a tyrant, take him down to increase the light of the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.
John Wycliffe
#57. It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).
Jerry Bridges
#58. Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.
Henry B. Eyring
#59. Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.
Hafsat Abiola
#60. We have walked through the darkness of this world, that's why we are able to see even a sliver of light.
-Gaara
Masashi Kishimoto
#61. The lemming types came out of their houses with flashlights. Going to light up the world with those flashlights, I guess." He laughed. "I stopped them all from watching Happy Days. Forced their IQs up a couple notches.
Chris Fuhrman
#62. Grief is a little like being in a fresh snowfall. A light, cold curtain falls between you and the rest of the world.
Elise Forier Edie
#63. In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
Jose Marti
#64. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].
Billy Graham
#65. A woman's belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.
Toni Sorenson
#66. Mary became the window of heaven, for God through her poured the True Light upon the world; the
John Henry Newman
#67. Keep me heaven my soul has holes, leaking good morals, I once had control over dark matters of the world, give me courage and strength for my Lord, and sew the holes that hold you near. Keep me heaven my soul has holes.
Anthony Liccione
#68. The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Paul Virilio
#69. Then there's the kind of zombie I've become now: the one who has lost everything - his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
Adam Silvera
#70. may it please our Lord to kindle a new light of the world which may guide unbelievers to conversion, that with us they may meet Christ, to whom be honor and praise world without end.
Raymond Lull
#71. The world is in need of an encompassing and of course, just and humane order in the light of which the rights of all are preserved and peace and security are safeguarded.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#73. Marie-Laure says, I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.
Anthony Doerr
#74. God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
Adam Hamilton
#75. It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.
Mario Bunge
#76. To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
Jean Baudrillard
#77. Such are the laws of nature and balance. An if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.
Dan Brown
#78. Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.
Caryl Rivers
#79. I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
George Eliot
#80. You're my compass, remember? You're here to light my way in the darkness of this world.
Rebecca Lim
#81. Stop focusing on what others keep doing wrong; Be positive. Be a light & influence for others. Make a difference in our world.
Timothy Pina
#82. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.
From View With a Grain of Sand
Wislawa Szymborska
#83. How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its
Beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its Being.
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too
Frightened
Hafez
#84. A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.
Rob Manuel
#85. 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
#86. We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.
James Michael Pratt
#87. Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how that intuitively understands the world in light of the Gospel.
James K.A. Smith
#88. When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the mechanical world.
Gilbert Ryle
#89. We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
Anthony Kiedis
#90. All the metaphors in this world wouldn't scratch the surface of what stepping into darkness is like for me. And that's just darkness. Don't get me started on light. Really, don't get me started on light.
Glen Duncan
#91. I was completely astonished by the beauty of nature. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
Albert Hofmann
#92. They are as they are because they live in the light, the gunslinger thought suddenly. That light of civilization you were taught to adore above all other things. They live in a world which has not moved on.
Stephen King
#93. Beyond the ephemeral and the dark stands "a sign from eternity, solemn and mighty, bathed in the radiance of the divine sun of grace and light - the cross. And there [God] hangs, his arms outstretched as if to embrace the entire world in love."42
Charles Marsh
#94. George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with
Justin Spring
#95. Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.
Tom Giaquinto
#96. Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.
Ben Bernanke
#97. It is light that cheers us when we are downhearted, it is light that brings us solace out of suffering, it is light that beams upon us when we discover some new hidden truth of the universe - it is light that first greets us when we emerge into this world.
Eric P. Kelly
#98. My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
Sarah Manguso
#99. Why would you save me?
Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
- A Tale of Despereaux, Kate Dicamillo - P. 81
Kate DiCamillo
#100. The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light.
Anthony Doerr
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