“If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and, if we die, deplores us for ever, and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom--whence it passes with the pure soul, beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!” IfsLoveStillsSoulLastsSpiritDiesDarknessSorrowPureAnd LoveRemainsFaithfulLove LifeImmortalBosomsSteadfastPure Soul Book:The Newcomes: Thackeray Collections Source: The Newcomes: Thackeray Collections
“I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.” KnowsFeelsLooksStillsLanguageDarknessRemainsCinemaFilmmakerGiantsAdmirationElusiveCinematicHitchcock Author:Toby Jones
“You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!” LightDarknessSunRemainsBehaveCavesLight Up Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“What we are shines more brightly than anything we say or do. If we are to fill the world with light, we must first face any tattered remnant of darkness that remains in our own souls.” IfsWorldFirstsSoulLightFacesDarknessRemainsShiningRemnants Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“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.” GivingShouldSelfLightDesireWishLordDarknessSourcePicksInfiniteRemainsFortuneEndureGuidanceInner StrengthCandleWithin YouPromptsInstill Author:Abdul-Qadir Gilani
“When the moon, after covering herself with darkness as in sorrow, at last throws off the garments of her widowhood, she does not at once expose herself impudently to the public gaze; but for a time remains veiled in a transparent cloud, till she gradually acquires courage to endure the looks and admiration of beholders.” LooksDoeLastsDarknessSorrowMoonRemainsEndureCloudsAcquireAdmirationTransparentCoveringGarmentsBeholderWidowhood Author:Augustus William Hare
“Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love.” HumansKindMadeEndsMatterChristianPainHuman BeingsDarknessPromiseCommitmentRemainsSupremeFaithfulManifestNeverthelessPropositionsChristian FaithSigningSupreme BeingBewilderment Author:Terry Eagleton
“Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.” GivingPersonsSaidMightDarknessGroupsIgnoranceGiving UpElectionRemainsSpeciesLocalsAbsurdThis DayFrighteningAbrahamSupremacyAscendancy Author:George Carlin
“No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.” KnowsHumansMadeStillsLightFacesSpiritHuman BeingsLordDarknessLet MeRemainsIgnorantYour FaceShedNoon Author:Saint Augustine
“I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.” MenLongMadeSaidDarkDarknessWiseIgnoranceAll ThingsAskingRemainsInvisiblePrizeDespise Author:R. Scott Bakker
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.” WorldChildrenStatesLightPurposeGamesForceSportsWealthPerfectUnitedBusinessPayDarknessUnited StatesFansIllusionExpectationsAccountsRemainsInnocenceTriumphPreservesMotivational SportsRitualImmenseCeremonyPlausiblePortrayalBlameless Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so much a single effort to render this transition understandable” LightFallSinEffortDarknessPossibilityRemainsScriptureTransitionShedActuality Author:Herman Bavinck
“Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.” WayLightDarkRoomsDarknessForeverMeditationSeeingIgnoranceTruth IsEnlightenmentRemainsTorchesDark Room Author:Gautama Buddha
“The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” PeopleDoeSelfGovernmentSpiritualDarknessRightsAirConstitutionVictimRemainsBillsOppressionInstanceFulfillmentGuaranteesTwilightDocumentsBill Of RightsExecutingNightfallSelf Fulfillment Author:William O. Douglas