Radiance Quotes - Page 6

• Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Reflecting Back, Way

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.84, Multnomah

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• Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.

  Merce Cunningham

  Light, Together, Different

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• But the 'project of me' can never be enough, for it does not meet 'the other,' and real living involves meeting. The touch and contact with all of life, the full freedom of non-separation, the completeness of full relationship, and the radiance of compassionate ecstasy is what we are inherently hungry for.

  Rick Jarow

  Real, Doe, Separation

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• The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
  Cruelly, being barren.
  Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Light, Barren

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

  Marcel Proust

  Art, Space, Fire

  Marcel Proust, Joanna Kilmartin (1992). “In Search of Lost Time: Time regained. VI”, Random House (UK)

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• But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

  David Deida

  Maturity, Age, Depth

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• A Christian community should do as Jesus did: propose and not impose. Its attraction must lie in the radiance cast by the love of brothers.

  Jean Vanier

  Christian, Jesus, Brother

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.144, Paulist Press

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• O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Deep Love, World

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “O Love”

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• At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Twenties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.62, Book House

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• Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Boys, Way, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.119, A&C Black

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• What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Strong, Responsibility

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• Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey.

  Douchan Gersi

  Motivational, Inspiration, Destiny

  Douchan Gersi (1987). “Explorer”, Tarcher

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• I arise today
  Through the strength of heaven:
  Light of sun
  Brilliance of moon
  Splendor of fire
  Speed of lightning
  Swiftness of wind
  Depth of sea
  Stability of earth
  Firmness of rock.

  Saint Patrick

  Nature, Moon, Fire

  "Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century". Book by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, John Meyendorff, 1986.

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• It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must believe that He is growing in our lives; we must believe it so firmly that we cannot help relating everything, literally everything, to this almost incredible reality.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). “A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander”, p.3, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Attachment, Hatred

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• I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

  E. B. White

  Believe, Fall, Opportunity

  "One Man's Meat". Book by E. B. White, 1942.

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• Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Numbers, Quality

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.90, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

  Guru Nanak

  Powerful, Self, Peaceful

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• Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Glowing, Hot And Cold

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• I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born, Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Song, Book, People

  Czeslaw Milosz, “And Yet The Books”

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• [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Desire, Mystery

  Joseph Campbell (2001). “Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor”, p.16, New World Library

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• Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must." "I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically." "None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow. "How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Eye, Angel

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• Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Book, Writing, Language

  Brooks Atkinson, Robert G. Lowery (1982). “Sean O'Casey, from times past”, Barnes & Noble

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• As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Responsibility, Buddhism

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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