A Quote by Leonard Ravenhill

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

Leonard Ravenhill

Quote Topics

Candle Curse Dark Dark Room Darkness Either Light Room Sit Sitting

Quote Author

Leonard Ravenhill
English - Author
1907 - 1994

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.'

Peter Benenson

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

N. T. Wright

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.

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.

John F. Kennedy

In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

Al Gore

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Confucius

You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

Patrick Kane

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

Irving Greenberg

It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Jodi Picoult

Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.