Darkness quotes
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"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."
"Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness."
"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."
"Don't curse the darkness, light a candle."
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
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"Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the Shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular."
"It is in the darkness that one finds the light."
"The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction."
"Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness"
"The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise."
"Even in darkness it is possible to create light."
"The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed."
"The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness."
"All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle."
"Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow."
"As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes."
"My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."
"If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader."
"Whatever your vocation is, you are destined to reign in life because Jesus is Lord of your life. When you reign in life, you reign over sin, you reign over the powers of darkness, and you reign over depression, over poverty, over every curse, and over every sickness and disease. You REIGN over the devil and all his devices!"
"The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see."
"It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass."
"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness"
"Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray."
"When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me."
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
