Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.

You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.

You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment

As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart

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

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament, to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

I turned to the circle of brutal and malignant faces peering at me through the semi-darkness. A sudden and deep sympathy welled up in me. I remembered the Cockney’s way of putting it. How God must have hated them that they should be tortured so!

Lantern-shine, dim but kind – No starkness in darkness – Even I please the eye. Outside, wind and rain, Weather’s fitful wax and wane. Tomorrow’s sun will reveal What night conceals. All we lack, regret, know, Forgotten in lamp-oil glow.

We must imitate Christ’s life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history

I’ve never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There’s always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music

Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah – now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

Kek finds sun when the sky is dark.

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.

The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound – and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard subside and allow him to hear certain other fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point verged between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop.

Remember that you have a choice in what you see. If you choose to see a person’s darkness, you strengthen your darkness within. If you choose to see their light, you shine from the inside out.

In the midst of the darkness, grab a flashlight.

We must, therefore, break away once and for all from the metaphors which depict consciousness as a luminous circle round which there is nothing, to its own eyes, but darkness. On the contrary, the shadow is at the centre.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

We all face darkness at some point, but it’s in those times that we discover our own strength and resilience.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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The priest’s breath was sour and hot as he moved towards me…Then there was blackness…I remembered every single moment up to a point…Then it’s concreted over. What’s buried there? Is it something worth exhuming?..Yes. Maybe if I say it, it will lose its power over me.

In the midst of darkness, find your light and let it guide you.

I’m just a young king trying to make it out the darkness.

Do not get too attached to life] for it is like a sailor’s leave on the shore and at any time, the captain may sound the horn, calling you back to eternal darkness.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek’s soul had become the bow. He was playing his life…He played that which he would never play again.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you’ll find something solid to stand on Or you’ll be taught how to fly!

Let me light my lamp”, says the star, “And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness

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

You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness. My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won’t engulf my head, I can see by infrared, How I hate the night. Now I lay me down to sleep, Try to count electric sheep, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. -Marvin.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Gradually I got used to the silence and darkness that surrounded me and forgot that it had ever been different, until she came—my teacher—who was to set my spirit free.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

We no longer live on what we have, but on promises; no longer in the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which we expect will at last bring the proper sunrise

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light, and of apathy into movement without emotion

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Light up the darkness

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine

I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don’t want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and–sans End! Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
“Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don’t worry about darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness

When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them. Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness, without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces, or to intrude into each other’s hearts

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

I wish I were a candle in the darkness.