A Quote by John F. Kennedy
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
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We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.
Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.
You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.
Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.
It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.
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