Quotes by category:Darkness

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

A. B. Simpson

darkness christian needs

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

A. E. Housman

darkness earth peace

The thing about shadows is that they're not all darkness. You need to have light to have shadows. So just look for it.

A. Meredith Walters

shadow light darkness

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

Abbas Kiarostami

stills poetry-is darkness

If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

Abbi Glines

fighting darkness looks

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

Abraham Isaac Kook

our-generation light darkness

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

peers light darkness

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

light darkness self

As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.

Abu Bakr

islamic wisdom darkness

My painting represents the victory of the forces of darkness and peace over the powers of light and evil.

Ad Reinhardt

light darkness evil

Neil Young, who isn't really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan. They're all a huge influence on me. For me, just following rock history and watching Darkness On the Edge of Town and realizing that's it's okay to be obsessed with a snare sound because Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with a snare sound.

Adam Granduciel

realizing influence darkness

So much pain. So many lives. Their darkness must end.

Adam Jensen

pain ends darkness

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

Adam Johnson

real imagination darkness

Clear moments are so short.

Adam Zagajewski

shadow ocean darkness

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Adlai E. Stevenson

light kind darkness

Light refused increases darkness.

Adrian Rogers

increase light darkness

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

Adrian Rogers

boss deception darkness

The beauty of darkness

Adrienne Rich

darkness

I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

Adrienne Rich

creativity use darkness

As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.

Akhenaton

moon darkness perfect