Top 100 The Light Shines Quotes
#2. It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.
Alison Croggon
#3. There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
Alan Watts
#4. I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window.
Nicholas Sparks
#5. The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
Reba McEntire
#6. Life shines where the light shines and our mind is our greatest light that can brighten our lives!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. The light shines in the soul, awaken the spirit and gives clearer sight.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.
Normandi Ellis
#9. We're all broken, but thats how the light shines through.
Mira Monroe
#10. It's the darkness that shows us how bright the light shines.
Bella Raven
#11. You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#12. Accept who you are. Don't leave me, Willow. We are all broken, that's how the light shines through. - Rhydian
Mira Monroe
#13. Favorite Places:
I'm not that good at being a tourist because I'm always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.
Brian Andreas
#15. I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!
Lorrie Moore
#16. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it
Ted Dekker
#18. In the broken places, the light shines through.
Leonard Cohen
#19. 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
#20. The Light shines brightest, when the world is at its darkest.
Michael Lackey
#23. The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#24. 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
#25. In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to waste. It was my life calling me to itself. It was the light that shines in darkness calling me back into time.
Wendell Berry
#26. Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.
Ray A. Davis
#27. And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.
Vincent Bugliosi
#28. He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.
Neal Shusterman
#29. All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.
John A. Ashley
#30. God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
Richard Sibbes
#31. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.
Toni Sorenson
#32. You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul
Noelle Adams
#33. In a world where very few people care if you live or die, there is a light that shines in the distance. It has a name that they call hope and it carries with it people that never stop caring. They learned long ago that extending mercy was not a choice, but a place where God lives.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
Albert Schweitzer
#35. The masculine sun/solar consciousness shines its vision, direction, and warmth onto the earth; the feminine moon consciousness reflects the light, thus illuminating the dark.
Elisa Romeo
#36. If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Sophocles
#37. We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.
Shane Claiborne
#38. There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within
the beyond
the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
Elsa Barker
#39. Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#40. The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors ... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.
Robert Barron
#41. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#42. Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
Dylan Thomas
#43. So doth the greater glory dim the less:
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by.
William Shakespeare
#44. She draws back, yet refuses to lose skin contact. Golden light flickers across his face. He is the night, the stars. His soul shines so brightly, she could pour it into a jar, and it'd be as bright as the sun.
Laura Kreitzer
#46. The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.
R.D. Laing
#47. Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.
Ralph Marston
#48. And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be
The Beatles
#49. There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#50. John 1:5
Light shines into the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it
Anonymous
#51. A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.
Chuck Spezzano
#52. Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It is the light that shines beyond darkness, time, space and dimensionality.
Frederick Lenz
#53. I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may, so to speak, have been too dazzled by the great light of his experience to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all.
Marilynne Robinson
#54. Love is like a unique comet that appears rarely in the sky shines as bright as a thousand stars and flies through your galaxy creating light during an eclipse.
Leesa Abbott
#55. Her light shines through the tunnel to my heart, clenching every pulsing beat with radiance and luminosity.
Renee Ericson
#56. When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.
John Milton
#57. 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
#58. People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
Bob Balaban
#59. As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.
Felix Adler
#60. Because when we love, we carry it on the inside, and we can turn on its light even in our darkest moments. The deeper we love, the brighter it shines.
Leylah Attar
#61. Light shines brightest in the deepest dark!
Jim Butcher
#62. Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night ...
Charlotte Turner Smith
#63. The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.
Tony Romo
#64. It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens
#65. Even though life may have moved wearily and painfully through such a person, they have still managed not to let it corrode their soul. In such a face a lovely luminosity shines out into the world. It casts a tender light that radiates a sense of wholeness and wholesomeness.
John O'Donohue
#66. Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
Ramana Maharshi
#67. Light shines universally on all living beings saying the Nenbutsu. Wherever they may be in the world, it welcomes all, turning away none.
Kakunyo
#68. To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
Jim Carrey
#69. Holding my hands, kissing the palms, his smile is ecstatic, jubilant, adoring, and the song playing speaks for him, Have you ever seen the light ... the way it shines in you.
Poppet
#70. Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
Richard Sibbes
#71. In Beirut, death's unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night's Russian missiles, brighter than a baby's smile.
Rabih Alameddine
#72. 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
#73. All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.
Tracy McMillan
#74. I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good.
Fuminori Nakamura
#75. Even in darkness, the smallest light shines.
Novel
#76. God knows the mess we're in when He calls us. His light shines greater through "cracked pots" than it does through those who have it all together.
Joyce Meyer
#77. Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?
Pablo Neruda
#78. Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
Bruce Cockburn
#79. We need to create the kind of kingdom-shaped culture within our churches that constantly shines the light of Christ wherever these false gods exist in our own affections.
Russell D. Moore
#80. 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
#82. Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Maya Angelou
#83. Stay, O sweet, and do not rise;
The light that shines comes from thine eyes;
The day breaks not, it is my heart,
Because that you and I must part.
John Donne
#84. 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
#85. The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#86. We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.
John Piper
#87. What is the value of light
when it no longer shines
Mario
#88. Before the eyes shut
this knife shines snow-
bright once more through the inner organs
as using a nuclear bomb to light a cigar
sends lung cancer across the earth
to parting lovers
Xiaobo Liu
#89. At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.
Shaun Hick
#90. All, whether believers or not, find something to love, and to love intensely, in the Virgin of Guadalupe. Against her in this land, no man blasphemes. She is the ideal, the light that shines above our strife and our incredulity.
Francis Johnston
#91. The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
Bob Dylan
#92. God help us both if this is summer.
The sun shines all day and all night
but it has no warmth, no light, no colour.
Simon Armitage
#93. Passion. Like the moon, we borrow our light; bright as we are when grace shines on us, we are darkness itself when the Sun of Righteousness withdraws himself.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#94. Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#95. Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.
Confucius
#96. Even the smallest light shines bright in the darkness
Donna Raye
#97. Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go.
Karen Cushman
#98. Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.
James E. Faust
#99. The universe is a hollow sphere floating in the middle of a sea of fire. There are numerous tiny holes in the surface of the sphere, as well as a large one. The light from the sea of flames shines through these holes. The tiny ones are stars, and the large one is the sun.
Liu Cixin
#100. Try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.
Mia Sheridan
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