Quotes about Darkness

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can tell yourself the time by their waking, if you are experienced. But that is your folly, not theirs.

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone in the forest at night.

Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.

We are united to Him in darkness, because we have to hope.

The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

It is good for the soul to be in solitude for a great part of the time. But if it should seek solitude for its own comfort and consolation, it will have to endure more darkness and more anguish and more trial. Pure prayer only takes possession of our hearts for good when we no longer desire any special light or grace or consolation for ourselves, and pray without any thought of our own satisfaction.

Tu qui sedes in tenebris spe tua gaude: orta stella matutina, sol non tardabit.