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Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)
- Victor Hugo
Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
- Ayn Rand
Strife is food that feeds evil spirits.
- Perry Stone
The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness.
- Peter Kreeft
We cannot go from our darkness to his light, because we are working in the dark. But God can go from his light to our darkness, because he is working in the light.
- Peter Kreeft
We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
- Corrie Ten Boom
When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
- Corrie Ten Boom
The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.
- Corrie Ten Boom
And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb. I would think of Haarlem, each substantial church set behind its wrought-iron fence and its barrier of doctrine. And I would know again that in darkness God's truth shines most clear.
- Corrie Ten Boom
AND SO THE shadow fell across us that winter afternoon in 1937, but it rested lightly. Nobody dreamed that this tiny cloud would grow until it blocked out the sky. And nobody dreamed that in this darkness each of us would be called to play a role: Father and Betsie and Mr. Kan and Willem—even the funny old Beje with its unmatching floor levels and ancient angles.
- Corrie Ten Boom
On my closed eyelids the sun glimmered and blazed. "It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?" There was a very long silence. "There is great darkness," he said at last. "I cannot bear the work I do here.
- Corrie Ten Boom
And I would know again that in darkness God's truth shines most clear.
- Corrie Ten Boom