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.

her love was like jelly of the moonlight tempting to undress my darkness

I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.

Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,We win some battles, then we lose some,Truth is no more than illusion at best.What has been said under veil of...

You’re not like other Wasps.””Aren’t I?” Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. “No doubt you’ve killed my kinsmen by the score.””A few,” Salma allowed.”Well, next time you shed my kinden’s blood, think on...

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

…darkness is not everywhere – for here and there I find a few faces illuminated from within. Paper lanterns swaying among the dark trees.

Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling...

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it’d find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.”[Q&A with...

The only darkness you must fear is the the one that burns in your soul.” *Chiki101*

The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are...

Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what’s before us. But what is it we’re afraid of really? Not the...

It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can’t even see?

I will rather walk alone in the light than to live in the dark.

You don’t need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave

Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might...

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

…in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights – and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses…lie abandoned by you…

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...

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