Blinding light Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If we love him, God is with us in the darkness as we blindly forge ahead through our days, feeling our way toward the…

— Brad Keena

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly…

— James Freeman Clarke

Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly…

— Pope Benedict XVI

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms…

— Blaise Pascal

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which…

— Stephen Charnock

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored…

— Peter Kreeft

The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.

— Walter Raleigh

O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.

— Thomas Carlyle

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

— Federico Fellini

“Why does a heart wear its eyes into hell like slivers of false sunshine”

— Fanny Howe

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

— Madeleine L'Engle