“People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love and do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining. They just shine. – D.L. Moody.
A dark shadow needs light to exist, but light doesn’t need darkness to be luminous. – Gwen Hayes, Dreaming Awake
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton
See the light in others and treat them as if that is all you see – Wayne Dyer.
The darker the sky the brighter the stars. – Rick Warren
God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path. – Max Lucado
Be the kind of Christian that knocks holes in the darkness! – Tina Schramme
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens
“Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.” – Jesse Lair
“Character is what you are in the dark.” – Dwight Lyman Moody
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
“I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.” – Helen Adams Keller
“Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still — that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.” – Charles Kingsley
I love these quotes! Thank you for sharing them with us.
Love the quotes…thanks for sharing…..my favorite is the one by Edith Wharton….reminds me of how I want to always striving to be a reflector of Jesus’s light. God’s love to you!
And to you as well.
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