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'Tis a dangerous thing to engage the authority of scripture in disputes about the natural world, in opposition to reason; lest time, which brings all things to light, should discover that to be evidently false which we had made scripture to assert … We are not to suppose that any truth concerning the natural world can be an enemy to religion; for truth cannot be an enemy to truth, God is not divided against himself.
— The Sacred Theory of the Earth, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (1987), p. 32; ellipsis Gould's.
The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.
Stephen Crane— "The Clan of No Name" (1899); published in the anthology Wounds in the Rain (1900)
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.
anandmurti gurumaa— Truth is Beyond Words[1]
That soul is on the certain path toward light which, sincerely desiring the light, constantly submits to the claims of the light as they are made known. That soul cannot stay in darkness, any more than a flower opening its petals broadly to the sun can stay in shadow.
wayland hoyt— P. 389. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.
henry parry liddon— P. 210. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Nor sink those stars in empty night:They hide themselves in heaven's own light.
james montgomery— Friends.
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.
arthur penrhyn stanley— P. 98. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. … I have myself observed that in states of extreme fatigue, when I am really dangerously physically exhausted, I suddenly get absolute knowledge; …
marie-louise von franz— pp. 39-40 (Creation Renewed & Reversed)
The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.
— Washington Irving, in "Christmas Eve" in The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1820)
Love is not consolation, it is light.
— Simone Weil, as quoted in Simone Weil (1954) by Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin, p. 47.
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.
wystan hugh auden— Lines 89-99 (September 1, 1939 (1939))
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge , as fire is of light.
thomas carlyle— Carlyle, Essays, Death of Goethe. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There’s never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me
zooey deschanel— "Home"
It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Eric Hoffer— Section 49 (Reflections on the Human Condition (1973))
Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!"
Nikos Kazantzakis— Orpheus' song, Book III, line 178
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— H 36 (Notebook H (1784-1788))
In the light of that martial code whereby it was formally to be judged, innocence and guilt personified in Claggart and Budd in effect changed places. In a legal view the apparent victim of the tragedy was he who had sought to victimize a man blameless; and the indisputable deed of the latter, navally regarded, constituted the most heinous of military crimes.
Herman Melville— Ch. 21 (Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891))
The prayer of a person is (in reality) a light in his heart, so whoever desires, can illuminate his heart (by means of prayers).
— Kanzul `Ummal, Volume7, Tradition 18973
He has married me with a ring, a ring of bright water Whose ripples spread from the heart of the sea, He has married me with a ring of light, the glitter Broadcast on the swift river.
kathleen raine— Poem The Marriage of Psyche
A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. And closed them beneath the kisses of Night.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— The Sensitive Plant, Pt. I, st. 1 (1820).
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 5 (The Prime Minister (1876))
A light here required a shadow there.
virginia woolf— Part I, Chapter 9
She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
— Adlai Stevenson, on hearing of Eleanor Roosevelt's death; New York Times (8 Nov 1962).
They made light of it.
— Matthew, XXII. 5. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
— Psalms, IV. 6.
If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I’ve forgotten the road by which I came
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011) tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division of tragic existence; it rules over a world without twilight, which knows no effusion, nor the attenuated cares of lyricism; everything must be either waking or dream, truth or darkness, the light of being or the nothingness of shadow.
Michel Foucault— Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, R. Howard, trans. (1988)
In the light of the new knowledge various plausible, but frequently unsatisfying, suggestions put forward, especially by Wallace , Weismann , and their followers, as probable accounts of evolutionary progress, must be finally abandoned.
— Chapter XV, p. 289. (Mendel's Principles of Heredity (1913))
The exceptional nature of its limitations places in a strong light the general conception that liberty of the press, historically considered and taken up by the Federal Constitution, has meant, principally, although not exclusively, immunity from previous restraints or censorship.
— Charles Evans Hughes, (Near v. Minnesota, 1931).
Christianity in our country is a lot like what the Ducksters profess. No longer doctrinaire or demanding, the mishmash of pop-religion practiced in churches across America is an extension of the therapeutic culture: festooned with feelings, mostly misdirected. Untempered by intelligent interpretation of scripture… American pop-theology: light on doctrine, heavy on hellfire and damnation.
— "Duck Dynasty: A Decoy For Dummies", American Daily Herald, December 27, 2013.
