Top 100 Spiritual Darkness Quotes
#1. When we come to Christ, God calls us out of this world's sin and confusion. But then He sends us back into the world - not to share any longer in its sin and spiritual darkness, but to bear witness to the light of Christ.
Billy Graham
#2. One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
Rosemary Mahoney
#3. I believe in Christian charity, but I don't believe in Christian tolerance ... When we become so tolerate that we lead people into mental fog and spiritual darkness, we are not acting like Christians; we are acting like cowards!
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#4. A house divided against itself cannot stand. There is no middle road, no 'white' sin. One is either for God or against Him - there is no compromise between His holiness and the works of spiritual darkness.
Alicia A. Willis
#5. Christians at work in the world are the only real spiritual light in the midst of great spiritual darkness. This places a tremendous responsibility on all of us.
Billy Graham
#6. Oswald Chambers says, Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.
Stormie O'martian
#7. We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
#8. God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein
#9. Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
Saint Augustine
#10. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - EPHESIANS 6:12
Frank E. Peretti
#11. Shine your light, you will inspire others to radiant their inner light.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. Accept your dark side, understanding it will help you to move with the light. Knowing both sides of our souls, helps us all to move forward in life and to understand that, perfection doesn't exist.
Martin R. Lemieux
#14. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
Anthony Liccione
#15. She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light
Nikki Rowe
#17. Even though the situation may look dire, God is our light in the darkness. We are in a spiritual war, but failure is not an option. We are victors. We are conquerors. We always win.
Angela Lane Woods
#18. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.
Robert Uttaro
#19. He who walks with the Saviour, the light of the world, shall never walk in darkness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#20. When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love.
Alan W. Watts
#21. In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
#22. David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.'
Russell M. Nelson
#23. When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness ... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.
Christopher Earle
#24. A person knows when they're in darkness, even when they can't see. -Nightblood
Brandon Sanderson
#25. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart. Only in the moments of pain, do we begin to empathize with humankind. Only when you are lost, you will find new meaning. Float on.
Forrest Curran
#26. We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
A. D. Gordon
#29. According to Plato, Socrates believed all knowledge came from a divine state, but humans had forgotten it. Most lived in a cave of ignorance, but one could become enlightened by climbing out of the darkness and understanding the divide between the spiritual and material planes.
Gwendolyn Womack
#30. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
John Climacus
#31. Once darkness has what its wants, it drops you like a hot potato.
Mark Andrew Poe
#33. I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.
R. YS Perez
#34. Our spiritual mission is not to ignore the darkness, but to bring light TO the darkness. Ignoring darkness does not dispel it; only the light does. That is the difference between denial and transcendence.
Marianne Williamson
#35. Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. Long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness - whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in
Stephan A. Hoeller
#39. I heard her scream one night while she was sleeping.
Heard but didn't see.
When I turned, there was nothing.
No one.
Only darkness.
But I know what I heard.
Melanie A. Gabbard
#40. You can sew your own curtain to remain hidden from the dark side of the world
Munia Khan
#42. Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light.
Nikki Rowe
#44. 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
#45. Grace is darkness and light, peacefully co-existing, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWalt
#46. Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.
Solange Nicole
#48. The enemy is a spiritual enemy. He's called the principality of darkness. The enemy is a guy called Satan.
William G. Boykin
#49. You don't need a sad soul
to feel the beauty of a dead grave
Just stay with the pale moon
when darkness wants the night to be brave
Munia Khan
#50. Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#51. For the first time in this 11 years
I have come to love the darkness
for I believe now that it is a part, a very, very small part of Jesus' dakness and pain on earth. You have taught me to accept it [as] a "spiritual side of 'your work'" ... (Mother Teresa, quoated in Kolodiejchuk, p. 208).
Brian Kolodiejchuk
#52. Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.
Franklin Graham
#53. The center of my sins
stuck behind a blocked door,
circled by hollow deeds
spread on my lifetime's floor
Munia Khan
#54. It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.
Nancy Venable Raine
#55. Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.
Lester Levenson
#56. The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.
Radhe Maa
#57. Life was the gift that you were given the day you were born, and in turn you are the gift to life. Only in the moments of being alone in the darkness on the raft, will you have the space to speak, listen, and to act from the heart.
Forrest Curran
#58. Where there is no Sachchidanand [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], there is night (darkness).
Dada Bhagwan
#59. And perhaps you thought, "Because I'm doing so much spiritual work, I'm only going to attract angels." No! The more spiritual work you do, the more darkness you attract. Because the light don't need more light. The darkness needs light! The light doesn't need more light.
Iyanla Vanzant
#60. You can either choose to walk in light and love, or run in fear and darkness. But with the latter, you're more likely to fall.
Donald L. Hicks
#61. Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. This leads to a denial of spiritual sight.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#62. You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.
Thomas Kinkade
#63. The voices inside you can lead your soul astray Believe in what you dream Don't turn away don't you turn away. Reach for the light You might touch the sky Stand on the mountaintop and see yourself flying Reach for the light to capture a star Come out of the darkness and find out who you are.
Steve Winwood
#64. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#67. When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.
Flannery O'Connor
#68. If we didn't have shadow we'd just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.
S. Kelley Harrell
#69. Forces of light on earth shall overcome the force of darkness. Complete spiritual enlightenment on earth will occur.
Edgar Cayce
#70. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
Adriano Bulla
#73. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.
Nikki Rowe
#76. Do you know what it's like, to hide in the shadows until your soul starts to blend into the darkness?
Maverick Myth Novel
#77. Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?
Seth Adam Smith
#78. The value of darkness can never be measured
if you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured
Munia Khan
#80. A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness
Seth Czerepak
#81. Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#83. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. * 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Anonymous
#84. Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.
Adi Shankara
#85. Illusion (maya) cannot enter where there is 'light' (enlightenment, awareness). Once darkness falls, illusion will enter there. The Gnani Purush can arrange for your illusion to go away permanently.
Dada Bhagwan
#86. Photography by nature is spiritual, considering it comes from the darkness to show the light.
Kevin Russo
#87. It is more spiritual the one that faces darkness with his light than the one that hides his light from the world.
Robin Sacredfire
#88. While sitting in the darkness in complete silence, I never realized how much there was to see and hear. There is sight and sound in darkness and silence. Learn to look and listen.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#89. Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn't something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you.
Forrest Curran
#90. Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Edna O'Brien
#91. Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.
Keith Shaver
#92. To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#94. Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
R.D. Laing
#95. Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.
Sayagyi U Ba Khin
#96. The civil involvement of the church is a spiritual tactic aim at defeating the forces of darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
#98. People underestimate the stars and the connectedness they bring between spirit and matter. More often than not, when lost, we seek solitude in staring into the darkness hoping something speaks back to us, usually through a feeling, a thought or a rare occurrence of a shooting star.
Nikki Rowe
#99. We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.
Bruce Cockburn
#100. And then,
There was a love
Shining so bright,
That even the darkest part
Of our hearts
Felt the warmth
Bryonie Wise
