Quotes on Light

God is the Light of the heavens and earth.
The parable of His Light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp:
The lamp enclosed in glass: The glass as it were a brilliant star:
Lit from a blessed tree, an olive, neither of the East nor of the West,
Whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though the fire scarce touched it:
Light upon Light!
 -  Muhammad, The Holy Quran, Sura 24:35

Nature and Nature’s Law lay hidden in night.
God said, “Let Newton be,” and then there was Light.
 -  Alexander Pope

For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible,
And nothing secret that will not be known and come to Light.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of Luke 8:17

Sometimes the Light's all shining on me.
Other times, I can barely see.
Lately, it occurs to me…
What a long, strange trip it's been.
 -  Jerry Garcia

If they say to you, “Where did you come from?”
Say to them, “We came from the Light, the place where the Light came into being on its own accord and established itself and became manifest through their image.”
If they say to you, 'Is it you?'
Say, 'We are children, and we are the elect of the living father.'
 -  Jesus, Gospel of Thomas, Verse 50

Nothing is so like a soul as a bee. It goes from flower to flower as a soul goes from star to star, and it gathers honey as a soul gathers Light.
 -  Victor Hugo

Whosoever knows that person whose dwelling is seed, whose sight is the heart, whose mind is Light – the principle of every self – he indeed is a teacher.
 -  Third Adyhaya, Ninth Brahmana, Verse 17

Well I came across a child of God, he was walking along the road.
And I asked him tell where are you going, this he told me:
Well, I'm going down to Yasgur's farm, going to join in a rock and roll band.
Got to get back to the land, set my soul free.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
 -  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

It is better to Light a candle than curse the darkness.
 -  Eleanor Roosevelt

Farming in the world requires the cooperation of four essential elements....
water, earth, wind, and Light. God's farming likewise has four elements -
faith, hope, love, and knowledge. Faith is our earth, that in which we take root. Hope is the water through which we are nourished. Love is the wind through which we grow. Knowledge then is the Light through which we ripen.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of Phillip, Verse 79

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.
 -  Led Zeppelin

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, "More Light/"
SunLight. TorchLight. CandleLight. Neon, incandescent Lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our road, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier’s Field. Little tiny flashLights for those books we read under the covers when we’re supposed to be asleep.
Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor.
Light is knowledge, Light is life, Light is Light.
 -  Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of Thomas, Verse 3

Let you Light shine.
Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else.
Let your Light Shine.
 -  Oprah Winfrey

In the past we have had a Light that flickered,
In the present we have a Light which flames,
And in the future there will be a Light which shines over land and sea.
 -  Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

These are the days you might fill with laughter until you break.
These days you might fell a shaft of Light make its way across your face.
And when you do you’ll know how it was meant to be.
See the Signs and know their meaning.
It's true, you'll know how it was meant to be.
Hear the Signs and know they’re speaking to you, to you.
 -  Natalie Merchant

O Light divine!
We no need no fuller test that all is ordered well;
We know enough to trust that all is best
Where Love and wisdom dwell.
 -  Christopher Pearse Cranch

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become children of the Light.
 -  Jesus, Gospel of John 12:36

We gotta get to a higher place
And we gotta leave by night.
Before that river takes us down
We gotta find some place that's dry.
We gotta run like we've never run
Or we're gonna lose the Light.
 -  Tom Petty