Quotes about Darkness

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Light works most effectively in darkness.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.

But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.