Best faith & darkness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.”

Author:Jewel

“In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness.”

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Author:Mary McLeod Bethune

“faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.”

Thinking Faith Darkness Failing Praying

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.”

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Book:God's Guidance: A Slow and Certain Light

Source: God's Guidance: A Slow and Certain Light

“It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".”

Heart Faith Religious Darkness Cry Faith In God

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”

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Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.”

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Author:Edward Teller

“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.”

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Book:The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization-the him night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and best.”

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Author:Ross Turnbull

“To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.”

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Author:Mother Teresa

“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”

Life Certain Faith Stars Darkness Needed

Author:Rajneesh

“It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must believe that He is growing in our lives; we must believe it so firmly that we cannot help relating everything, literally everything, to this almost incredible reality.”

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Book:A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander

Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander

“If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth.”

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Book:A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve

Source: A Call to Mercy: Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve

“Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring us the light; captives, we awaited a Savior... Are these things minor or insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?”

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Author:Gregory of Nyssa

“No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.”

Stills Matter Inspiration Faith Darkness Deeper Deep

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.”

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol I: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

“Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.”

Source: A Child in Winter: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany with Caryll Houselander

“Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“He who walking on the sea could calm the bitter waves, who gives life to the dying seeds of the earth; he who was able to loose the mortal chains of death, and after three days darkness could bring again to the upper world the brother for his sister Martha: he, I believe, will make Damasus rise again from the dust.”

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Author:Pope Damasus I

“Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness.”

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Author:Reinhard Bonnke

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