Best darkness & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As Christ's ministry drew to its close, its severity and its gentleness both increased; its severity to the class from whom it never turned away. Side by side through all His manifestations of Himself, there were the two aspects: "He showed Himself froward " (if I may quote the word) to the self-righteous and the Pharisee; and He bent with more than a woman's tenderness of 'yearning love over the darkness and sinfulness, which in its great darkness dimly knew itself blind, and in its sinfulness stretched out a lame hand of faith, and groped after a Divine deliverer.”

“This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.”

Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

“Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.”

Self Dark Sleep Darkness Ugliness Unimportant

Book:Now in November

Source: Now in November

“So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.”

Self Felt Loss Darkness Position Significant Self Worth Enthusiasm Decline Tied My Self Worth

Author:Tom Johnson

“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?”

Way Needs Mean Self Moments Shows Light Stars Darkness Identity Manifest True Self Pulse Hints Cumulative Oscillation Flickering Light

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”

Men Two Self Light Darkness Every Man Awake

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.”

Heart Self Lasts Dark Darkness Tears Bears Beats Blind Misery Flesh Wounds Sparks Helpless Weeping Keepers Hunted Hares

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness.”

Knows Want Self Sometimes Reason Able Fighting Given Dark Darkness Environment Our Environment Identification Dark Thoughts

Author:Matthew Carter

“God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.”

Self Reason Light Darkness Insight Assumption Logical Evident Hypothesis

Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

“Faith takes us to deep places, to the ruptures in our self-confidence and our lives. Do not settle for spiritual comfort all the time...Darkness is divine also. Faith is not about positive thinking so much as about what kicks in when we are weak, sick, and short of self-confidence. The via positiva never stands alone. The via negativa is always with us on our faith journey as well.”

Thinking Wells Soul Self Spiritual Darkness Our Lives Journey Positive Thinking Divine Comfort Weak Sick Self Confidence Settling Kicks Stand Alone Rupture

Author:Matthew Fox

“I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.”

Thinking Way Self Hard Darkness Self Knowledge Entering

Author:Sam Keen

“When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.”

Source: Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow

“I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.”

Thinking Want Self Whole Stories Literature Darkness Movement Destruction Misery Instinct Self Destruction Goth Sorrowful

Author:John Cusack

“Do not become the candle that gives light to others but itself remains in darkness. Do not follow the desires of your lower self. Should the Lord wish, He himself will pick you out and prompt you to be a source of guidance. He Himself shall endow you with the inner strength to endure the changes of fortune and will instill within you infinite wisdom.”

Giving Should Self Light Desire Wish Lord Darkness Source Picks Infinite Remains Fortune Endure Guidance Inner Strength Candle Within You Prompts Instill

Author:Abdul-Qadir Gilani

“It's not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it's the croaking madness of the dead universe, the spinning cadaver of physical space, the end of all worlds blowing blackly in the wind, formless and timeless, without a God who created it, without even its own self, impossibly whirling in the absolute darkness as the one and only reality, everything.”

World Humans Ends Self Reality Seems Faces Universe Space Darkness Laughing Hell Wind Madness Absolutes Demon Timeless Spinning Human Faces Cadavers

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

People Ifs Life Inspirational Self Wisdom Light Motivational Death Women Inspiring Beauty Family Darkness Sun Meditation Self Esteem Positive Confidence Window Adversity Shining Glasses Self Confidence Self Worth Recovery Uplifting Love Yourself Revealing Beautiful Women Inner Beauty Psychiatrist Pioneers Loving Yourself True Beauty Sparkle Boost Self Confidence Self Esteem And Confidence Being Beautiful Darkness To Light Losing A Loved One Beautiful Heart Light Within Boost Your Confidence My Self Worth Your Beautiful Confidence And Love Inspirational Confidence Women Beauty Self Confidence Motivational Inspirational Self Esteem Stained Glass Beautiful Inside Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Self Worth And Love Eyes And Beauty Great Self Esteem Confidence Love Inspirational Self Confidence Beauty Within Self Respect In Love Self Respect And Love Stained Glass Windows Beauty On The Inside Beautiful Lady Women Self Respect Self Being Women's Beauty Is It Worth It Beautiful Light Women Self Confidence Shining Out

Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.”

Self Seems Action Spirit Evil Beauty Darkness Vices Improvement Ruins Handsome Perplexed Evil Spirits Bad Actions

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”

Thinking Needs Wells Self Felt Darkness Adventure Silent Oneself Core Invisible Attachment Shed Vocal Wedges Solemnity

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.”

Self Light My Own Darkness Burning Candle Pits Light Up

Book:The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

“In the half darkness I winked to my other self, my mad dictator, and congratulated him on his droll victory. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth flowing from Shosha's head to my face. What did I have to lose? Nothing more than what everyone loses anyway.”

Self Eye Faces Felt Loses Half Darkness Victory Mad Warmth Dictator

Book:Shosha

Source: Shosha

“Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone when he didn't let you kno him? What a waste. The beauty he murdered in this place. He could never see what he had, only what he failed to achieve.”

Believe Made Self Wanted Darkness Achieve Waste Despised

Author:Janet Fitch

“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”

Source: The Hour of the Star

“Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus of voices. Orphaned voices. They seemed to speak for all the unlived parts of me, and they came with a force and dazzle that I couldn't contain. They seemed to explode the boundaries of my existence. I know now that they were the clamor of a new self struggling to be born.”

Source: When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions

“For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.”

Heart Self Spirit Names Poor Poverty Darkness Despair Destruction Mercy Depth Possession Loving God Plunge Self Destruction Unfathomable Alone Time Alone With God Prized Possessions

Author:Brennan Manning

“When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”

Stills Self Done Hurt Dark Darkness Changed Legs Pity Sat Accomplished Cried Self Pity

Book:Hatchet

Source: Hatchet

“Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul.”

Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

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