Lamps Quotes

• I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Learning
  • Oil
  • Midnight

• Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

  

  Bonaventure
  • Charity
  • Oil
  • Chastity

• Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Love
  • Woe
  • Lamps

• He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.

  

  Ryunosuke Satoro
  • Mountain
  • Fruit
  • Familiar

• One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mother
  • Stars
  • Eternity

• What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?

  

  William Golding
  • Bus
  • Wheels
  • Lamps

• Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Lamps
  • Shelters

• Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Filled
  • Vessel
  • Lamps

• But I would rather have snow. Snow is the on.y weather I really like. Nothing makes me less grumpy than snow. I can sit by a window for hours watching it fall. The silence of snowfall. You can use that. It's best when there's background lighting, for example a street lamp. Or when you go outside and let it flutter down on you. That's real riches, that is.

  

  Erlend Loe
  • Silence
  • Example
  • Backgrounds

• A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Work
  • God
  • Men

• We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Light
  • Waste
  • Vain

• God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Electricity
  • Lamps

• If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Earth
  • Sleep
  • Darkness

• I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Lamps
  • EBay
  • Remnants

• Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

  

  William Golding
  • Rain
  • Clouds
  • Incredibles

• It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows.

  

  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Shadows
  • Lamps
  • Scoff

• Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Learn
  • Refuges

• He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Gains

• The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Sky
  • Burning

• Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Women
  • Home
  • Piano

• Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Jesus
  • Looks
  • Burning

• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Chinese
  • Novel
  • Beloved

• Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

  

  David Brewster
  • Moon
  • Sky
  • Made

• [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

  

  William Mathews
  • Force
  • Pregnant
  • Phrases

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