Darkness Quotes
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There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
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And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.
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This institution of Heaven, when properly attended to, understood, and cordially embraced, turns men from darkness to marvelous light. If it finds them in a state of savage ignorance and barbarity it civilizes them, and forms them to be intelligent and good members of society.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.
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God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
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This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
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Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.
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I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
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I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
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With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.
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When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes.
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There's good in this world. I mean I'm not at all blind to that. God is a good God himself. There are good things. He gives good gifts to His children. But within this world there's a harshness and some of it is unanswered. I don't think I'm trying to provide an answer as much as I am begging people to walk with me in awareness so that we can push back the darkness.
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I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight of Washington Square.
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Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
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The blackness of darkness, forever.
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Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.
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Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
