Explore Quotes on Darkness

l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

The holiest of all holidays are those _x000D__x000D_Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; _x000D__x000D_The secret anniversaries of the heart, _x000D__x000D_When the full river of feeling overflows;- _x000D__x000D_The happy days unclouded to their close; _x000D__x000D_The sudden joys that our of darkness start _x000D__x000D_As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart _x000D__x000D_Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

Even so, one step from my grave,_x000D__x000D_I believe that cruelty, spite,_x000D__x000D_The powers of darkness will in time_x000D__x000D_Be crushed by the spirit of light.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

Often you can see power lines running alongside the street. Unless current is flowing through them, there is no light. The power line is you and I! The current is God! We have the power to allow the current to flow through us and thus to generate the light of the world: JESUS - or to refuse to be used and, thus, allow the darkness to spread.

The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

All beauty contains darkness.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

For I am every dead thing In whom love wrought new alchemy For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

If I could tell the world just one thing_x000D__x000D_It would be that we're all OK_x000D__x000D_And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful_x000D__x000D_And useless in times like these_x000D__x000D_I won't be made useless_x000D__x000D_I won't be idle with despair_x000D__x000D_I will gather myself around my faith_x000D__x000D_For light does the darkness most fear_x000D__x000D__x000D_My hands are small, I know_x000D__x000D_But they're not yours, they are my own_x000D__x000D_But they're not yours, they are my own_x000D__x000D_And I am never broken

Hope is the destination that we seek._x000D__x000D_Love is the road that leads to hope._x000D__x000D_Courage is the motor that drives us._x000D__x000D_We travel out of darkness into faith.