Light Quotes - Page 29

• Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

  Simone Weil

  Needs, Bread, Eternity

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.180, Psychology Press

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• The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

  Francis Quarles

  Humility, Pride, Understanding

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.237

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• In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
  Of Oceans rose the Morning to bright light
  TO gods and men.

  Homer

  Morning, Ocean, Men

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• Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we want to do that is so that people can use the deviations as spring boards or opportunities to share the truth, light, grace and peace that only Jesus Christ can bring to the human heart.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• One naked star has waded through
  The purple shallows of the night,
  And faltering as falls the dew
  It drips its misty light.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Stars, Fall, Night

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.147, Indiana University Press

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Army, Rays

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 134, 1895.

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• idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Distance, Passion, White

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Landscape, Jars

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Attention, Glitter

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

  Madame de Stael

  Fall, Glasses, Giving

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun
  But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done.

  Douglas Malloch

  Character, Men, East

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• Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Imagination, Vision, Deceiving

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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• Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

  Isaac Watts

  Beautiful, Order, Essentials

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• For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Feet, Air

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• I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Love Is, Giving

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• The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.

  Patricia Hampl

  Substance, Golden, Study

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• Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine!
  Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!
  Oft will the body's weakness check thy force,
  Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course;
  And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain
  Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain;
  Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come,
  And breathe around her melancholy gloom:
  To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine,
  And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.

  George Crabbe

  Art, Pain, Shining

  George Crabbe (1812). “Tales”, p.191

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• Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

  Fanny Fern

  Money, Heart, Wealth

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio”, p.91

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• Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

  Betty Friedan

  Darkness, Age, Youth

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Running, Writing, House

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• The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

  Emily Post

  Humor, Joy, Persons

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• At night make me one with the darkness
  In the morning make me one with the light.

  Wendell Berry

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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• Silence is the garment of light.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Silence, Garments, Silence Is

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.

  Plutarch

  Eye, Clouds, Soul

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