Top 1200 Spiritual Light Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients.

When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

You are a being of light composed of cells of light joined together in a matrix.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation.

Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.

The eye binds light, is itself a bound light. This binding is a reproductive synthesis, a Habitus.

Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

I've always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream.

You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.

In the Kabbala, it says that we receive the light in order to impart the light, and thus we repair the world.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look to the left, the right, or round about. But looking to other people on the same level cannot satisfy spiritual shortages. When the immortal spirit is starved, hunger persists for something more filling. Even when material success comes, there is a hollow ache - if living well falls short of living worthily. Inner peace cannot be found in affluence accompanied by spiritual privation.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

My wife is a light eater. As soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in genuine, laborious, demanding, transrational spiritual practice? This is very difficult, because both markets are referred to as "spiritual," but these two camps really don't get along very well-one is mostly translative, the other is mostly transformative, and they generally disapprove of each other-so how do you put them into one magazine without alienating them both?

Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from the deeper, spiritual dimensions of your conflict. Your adversary may be hopelessly in bondage to sin. Rather than retaliating, you should immediately and earnestly intercede for that person. Your opponent's hostility is your invitation to become involved in God's redemptive work to free him or her from spiritual bondage. Be alert to the spiritual warfare around you.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.

The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.

If you want to know if someone is a "spiritual being" ask yourself, "Is he or she breathing?" If the answer is yes, then you know that you are in the presence of a spiritual being.

Good heart is the best religion; its light is the most powerful light.

Dear young people, let yourselves be taken over by the light of Christ, and spread that light wherever you are.

While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

I'm going to drink a Coor's Light, cause Bud Light don't pay me nothin'.

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.

When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.

Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment.

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

When you come before spiritual master, be prepared to get chastised. Spiritual Master's business is to do that. Shisya means who is ready is accept 'sashan' or ready dor getting chastisement.

You're a refraction of the one light. You're a waveform of light. You're a fractal, a pattern that continuously changes.

My movies are very often violent and dark, but there's a spectrum of light, and that light is coming from the women.