Inspirational Quotes on Light

“Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.”

“Beware of trying to patch up a present refusal to walk in the light by recalling past experiences when you did walk in the light.”

“When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.”

“Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.”

“If you have only a little ray of light, show out distinctly that you are for Him.”

“The light of our life, our sole, eternal, and infinite joy, is simply God - God - God - nothing but God, and all His creatures in Him. He is all in all, and the children of the kingdom know it. He includes all things; not to be true to anything He has made is to be untrue to Him. God is truth, is life; to be in God is to know Him and need no law. Existence will be eternal Godness.”

“Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.”

“The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.”

“Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”

“...there had been too much light ever since they left the island of Ramandu -- the sun too large (though not too hot), the sea too bright, the air too shining. Now the light grew no less -- if anything increased -- but they could bear it. They could look straight up at the sun without blinking. They could see more light than they had ever seen before...And the next morning, when the sun rose, now five or six times its old size, they stared hard into it and could see the very feathers of the birds that came flying into it.”

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”

“Virtue-even attempted virtue-brings light; indulgence brings fog.”

“'We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.'”

“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”

“Though the light shines on things unclean, yet it is not thereby defiled.”

“Sin is a violation of moral light, a refusal to conform to what is known and perceived.”

“Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it , God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.”