Bud Quote by William Law

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has…

— Victor Hugo

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly…

— Ramakrishna

In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined…

— Saint Basil

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

— Maximus the Confessor

To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“...God is not located in some far-off celestial abode but is met in the embrace of daily life; that spirituality is, quite simply, about…

— Marilyn Lacey

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if…

— Alexander MacLaren

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

— Charles Spurgeon

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man,…

— John Donne

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his…

— Maximus the Confessor