Quotes about Brightness

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday.

Look at the rainbow, and praise him who made it; it is exceedingly beautiful in its brightness. It encircles the sky with its glorious arc; the hands of the Most High have stretched it out.

There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom  scarce any villany made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain.

We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrinth — a labyrinth to us inextricable, if the Word do not serve us as a thread to guide our path; and that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Our unveiled gaze receives and reflects the brightness of God until we are gradually turned into the image that we reflect. —2 Corinthians 3:18

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

It is as if the smallest amount of light is infinitely more powerful than massive amounts of dark.

It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.