Quotes on Light

If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same way, through the Apostles ordaining their successors, and these successors ordaining others, and so on, the grace of the Holy Spirit is handed down through all generations and enlightens all who obey their spiritual shepherds and teachers.

That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.

There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

I give myself the green light to move forward, and to joyously embrace the new.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.

I am a spark from the Infinite. _x000D_ I am not flesh and bones. _x000D_ I am light.

Nothing can nourish the soul but LIGHT. _x000D_ Rid yourself of material needs and be set FREE.

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

Start being brave about everything. Drive out darkness and spread light. Don’ look at your weaknesses. Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.

Jesus is not a figure from the past: He continues now and always to light the way for us.

Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.