Illumination Quotes - Page 7

• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

  Lydia Millet

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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• 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

  Light, Soul, Intuition

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• The ordinances do not impart eternal life to the believer, but they do confirm, strengthen, and heighten our awareness and enjoyment of that life. The bread and wine are means or instruments by which God quickens us to apprehend, understand, visualize, and experience the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit and his unique ministry of shining the light of illumination and glory on Jesus.

  Sam Storms

  Jesus, Wine, Mean

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• Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Belief, Ultimate

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.213, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

  Boethius

  Wisdom, Answers, Knows

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.26, Aeterna Press

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• 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

  Sunshine, Clouds, Light

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.277, eBookIt.com

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• By persistent and sustained practice, anyone and everyone can make the yoga journey and reach the goal of illumination and freedom.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Journey, Practice

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.9, Rodale

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• Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.

  Eric Van Lustbader

  Song, Lying, Heart

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• We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Simplicity, Mind

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what might have been the golden age of this speciality - photographers worked largely as the possessors of special and arcane skills, like the ancient priests who practiced and monopolized the skills of pictography or carving or manuscript illumination. In those halcyon days the photographer enjoyed a privileged status.

  John Szarkowski

  Photography, Media, Skills

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

  Juliette Binoche

  Letting Go, Believe, Past

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• 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

  Light, Giving, Shining

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• Love for family and friends, great as it may be, is much more profound when anchored in the love of Jesus Christ. Parental love for children has more meaning here and hereafter because of Him. All loving relationships are elevated in Him. Love of our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ provides the illumination, inspiration, and motivation to love others in a loftier way.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Jesus, Children, Motivation

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• Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Art, Sadness, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You are unique, and there may be incidents in your experience that are more noble and praiseworthy in their way than those recorded in any other life. There may be a flash of illumination here and a story of faithfulness there; you should truthfully record your real self and not what other people may see in you.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Real, Unique, Self

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• So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

  Ramakrishna

  Children, Simple, Divine Wisdom

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• Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Joy, Desire, Fruit

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.39, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The way upward from inertia to illumination passes through the sphere of action.

  Swami Prabhavananda

  Way, Spheres, Action

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• Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

  Andrew Lang

  Drunk, Support, Lamps

  1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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• There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law, business, morals...he who seeks for guidance...may look inside its covers and find illumination...

  Herbert Hoover

  Book, Law, Looks

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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, Understanding, Feelings

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• In search of love and music
  My whole life has been
  Illumination
  Corruption
  And diving, diving, diving, diving,
  Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

  Joni Mitchell

  Diving, Corruption, Searching For Love

  Song: Black Crow, Album: Hejira, 1976

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• We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Instruction

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2015). “Heirs of the King: Living the Beatitudes”, p.135, Discovery House

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• But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

  J. I. Packer

  Teacher, Eye, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.118, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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