Illuminated Quotes Page 2

Pray to God with tears in your eyes whenever you want illumination or find yourself faced with any doubt or difficulty. The Lord will remove all your impurities, assuage your mental anguish, and give you enlightenment.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left.

Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

The only church that illuminates is a burning church.

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

When the invocation descends into the heart, if there is darkness within, it illuminates it; and if there is already light, the invocation increases the light and intensifies it.

The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets.

America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.

Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too.

Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too.

Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

This is the great object held out by this association;

and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.

... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.

Once you can open yourself to joy, you feel as if you've transformed your sadness into illumination, which is really all that art is. All we want to do is transform the negative emotions into light. We want to compost them into light.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

Do not fret over the ignorant person;

surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.

The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good. Whoever does not have the fear of God is open to diabolical falls.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.