“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.” MenChildrenDreamLightFightingWaitingChurchStruggleLongingProfoundCaughtRingsIcePoundsBellsCreamTrafficVeteranIce CreamJunkSirensVendorsTraffic LightChurch Bells Author:Jackson Browne
“First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.” MenFirstsBelieveGodProblemLightJesusChristJesus ChristSolve Author:Billy Graham
“Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.” KnowsMenLooksStatesLightThreeSocialCausesDestinyEconomicStrangeHundredDirectRelationAffairJewRaysContinentsObscuritySuccessorsRays Of Light Author:Walther Rathenau
“...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, 'The sky is blue,' and people indignantly rush up trying to refute him saying, 'No, the sky is light blue,' then, whether they realize it or not, he has become an authority figure even to such adversaries.” PeopleIfsMenTryingLightRealizingLeadershipSkyFiguresAuthorityBlueSpiteGrantsAdversariesAnother ManSaying NoAuthority FiguresLight Blue Author:Criss Jami
“When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely transformed into divine love. For by continual participation in the divine radiance his intellect becomes totally filled with light; and when it has reintegrated its passible aspect, it redirects this aspect towards God, filling it with an incomprehensible and intense longing for Him and with unceasing love, thus drawing it entirely away from worldly things to the divine.” MenLightChristianDesireGrowsDivineAspectFilledLongingIntellectDrawingIntenseOrthodoxTransformedParticipationWorldlyFillingDivine LoveRadianceWorldly ThingsLonging For God Author:Maximus the Confessor
“And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.” MenWayLightDarkGhostRemarksFright Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ . . . They will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place.” MenLightLawPurposeChristLossPowerfulAcceptingTakenGraceSeriousHolyWeaponsGainsGuiltConvictionConversionPerceiveSinnerMost PowerfulDeprivedLikelihoodPowerful Weapons Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Every man and woman who serves the Lord, no matter how faithful they may be, have their dark hours; but if they have lived faithfully, light will burst upon them and relief will be furnished.” IfsMenMayMatterLightHoursDarkLordMen And WomenEvery ManFaithfulReliefDark Hours Author:Lorenzo Snow
“If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.” IfsMenLittlesTwoWholeFeelingsLightYouthFairsSightLaysDisappointmentSpreadChiefsDawnLife TimeRosy Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.” KnowsMenSelfReasonFeelingsLightDesireForceBornPowerfulEnemyAngerBlowSuperiorsHeatInternalsBetraySelf ControlInferiorsUncontrollable Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.” IfsMenMindLightHeavenWiseWindReflectionFlowBlowEastFolly Author:Edmund Spenser