Top 1200 Spiritual Darkness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I guess I have an affinity towards darkness, the dark side.

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

When there's doom and gloom, don't forget there's darkness before dawn.

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you.

Dawn tinted the darkness like water ink.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Anyone who is not on your same evolutionary and spiritual frequency will distance himself from you, while all those who are on the same evolutionary and spiritual frequency as you will come closer to you; you will see how amazing it is to discover that everyone who needs to be by your side will ultimately appear in your life in the most spontaneous and divine manner. That's how powerful the mind is

The Sun and the science are the same; when they set down, the darkness comes!

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

Spirituality yields two fruits. The first in inspiration to know what to do. The second is power, or the capacity to do it. These two capacities come together. That's why Nephi could say, 'I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded' (1 Nephi 3:7). He knew the spiritual laws upon which inspiration and power are based. Yes, God answers prayer and gives us spiritual direction when we live obediently and exercise the required faith in Him.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

And I tell myself, a moon will rise from my darkness.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Darkness exists to make light truly count.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

In medicine, we have invented an entirely new healing paradigm. Now we no longer simply look to the doctor and to medicine to heal us. We now recognize what has been substantiated scientifically everywhere from Harvard to Duke to Stanford - that the power of the mental and spiritual consciousness of the patient is as significant in healing as physical factors are. If we apply that same paradigm to politics, we see that the mind and the spiritual consciousness of the citizen are every bit as important as anything that goes on in the government.

Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak.

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

It's tempting to think that decisions that are not life-and-death are therefore unimportant, and that the little compromises we make don't matter to our bottom line or our spiritual selves. How many of us are tempted, in business, to make a less-than-ethical decision? To appropriate someone else's idea or fudge some numbers? We have to remember that maintaining our ethical and spiritual selves is absolutely linked with achieving the degree of success we're working toward.

'Session 9' used light and darkness to create atmosphere.

God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.

A person knows when they’re in darkness, even when they can’t see. -Nightblood

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient to us –and take them for granted because their doors are always open, only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of truth.

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience our sexuality on the spiritual level as a yearning for another person. We want to reach out and stretch ourselves into the depths of another. We want to bring the other person into the orbit of our deepest selves. We want to probe into the mystery of the other.

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness.

Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

Darkness cannot cast out darkness. You need a light for that. Fear cannot cast out fear. You're gonna need hope for that death warrants more death. But I believe life wants more life and I'm convinced that the greatest weapon we've got is LOVE! And maybe, in a world full of fighters, in a world imploding with hate, maybe to be a lover, you gotta be a fighter. Maybe that's the biggest fight, the only fight worth fighting, the fight you're gonna be in for the rest of your life.