If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.

I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn’t find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how:...

The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.

A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

Clary saw him take Mark’s hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy’s palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. ‘Take this with you,’ said Jace, ‘for it can be dark in...

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that...

Hold on to the darkness… I will come looking for your light.

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

Stars are God’s way of showing us that light can survive the darkness and shine through – that there is hope; even in dark times. That the darkness isn’t all there is.

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)

Helen Kelleresque.

You’re right. I think we’ve both had enough darkness. I want to live in light.

Darkness doesn’t fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

There is a sort of light surrounding Abel, something pure and strong radiates from him no matter where he is or what he’s doing. Sometimes Cain thinks he possesses a soul without shadows. That’s what...

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.

Darkness gives free rein to the mind’s worst imaginings

There was something about her playing… a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe

Give me your secrets. I’ll give you my soul.

When you’ve crawled through the darkness, the light is so much more glorious.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain...

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his...

Most of us are imprisoned by something. We’re living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

In the depth a light will grow,A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky,That circle ’round a gleaming eye,Turning darkness all away,Even depths will know their day,For every shadow has its...

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

… In this world, darkness is always looming on the horizon. At Gottfried, instead of avoiding the dark, we meet it head on …do the same with your studies and with every obstacle you face...

LIFE is like coffee — The darker it gets, the more it energizes.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

To love your weakness, negativity and darkness is to accept half of who you are.

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate when nothing ispromisednow young girls weep alone in small roomsold men angrily swing their canes atvisions asladies comb...

You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?’ I nodded. ‘Well, love is like that. Light doesn’t have to announce it’s way into a room or ask the...

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which...

When we get our spiritual house in order, we’ll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect...

To see in the dark, close your eyes.

Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

Darkness does something to a place, doesn’t it? It distorts. It becomes a canvas for the imagination. The good news is that shadows are only the deflection of light. They can frighten, but they can...

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.

We all have the power of light inside us, it’s just that sometimes the darkness is stronger. Fear is like darkness, too. It can consume you. It will consume you. And when you let it...

The next time that something seemingly bad happens to you, look for the divine in it. Look for the soul in the mundane, every day occurrences of your life. Look for the spark, look for...

In my darkest hour, the light of God have shine upon me and directed my path.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me – the humiliation of it – as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...

It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and...

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.