And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
The Bible, Genesis 1:3 kjv
Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
The Bible, Psalm 4:6 kjv
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes 11:7 kjv
The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
The Bible, John 1:9 kjv
So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
The Bible, Romans 13:12
Do not believe that you are a light to yourself. The Light is that which illumines every person coming into this world.
Augustine of Hippo
He who lives up to a little light shall have more light.
Thomas Brooks
A sense of the beauty of Christ is the beginning of true saving faith in the life of a true convert. This is quite different from any vague feeling that Christ loves him or died for him. These sort of fuzzy feelings can cause a sort of love and joy, because the person feels a gratitude for escaping the punishment of their sin. In actual fact, these feelings are based on self-love, and not on a love for Christ at all. It is a sad thing that so many people are deluded by this false faith. On the other hand, a glimpse of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ causes in the heart a supreme genuine love for God. This is because the divine light shows the excellent loveliness of God’s nature. A love based on this is far, far above anything coming from self-love, which demons can have as well as men. The true love of God which comes from this sight of His beauty causes a spiritual and holy joy in the soul; a joy in God, and exulting in Him. There is no rejoicing in ourselves, but rather in God alone.
The sight of the beauty of divine things will cause true desires after the things of God. These desires are different from the longings of demons, which happen because the demons know their doom awaits them, and they wish it could somehow be otherwise. The desires that come from this sight of Christ’s beauty are natural free desires, like a baby desiring milk. Because these desires are so different from their counterfeits, they help to distinguish genuine experiences of God’s grace from the false.
Jonathan Edwards
I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books.
It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing.
The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.
Helen Keller
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people the permission to do the same.
Nelson Mandela
An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of
God to men.
John Milton
I should like my light to shine, even if only very fitfully, like a match struck in a dark, cavernous night and then flickering out.
Malcolm Muggeridge
In reply to the question: What do you most want to do with the rest of your life?
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
A Chinese proverb
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
Lead me from the unreal to the real!
Lead me from darkness to light!
Lead me from death to immortality!
Upanishad
O Lord, forgive what I have been, sanctify what I am, and order what I shall be.
Thomas Wilson