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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Romans 5:8, John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, Matthew 18:21-35, 2 Samuel 12:1-7, Romans 14:10-13, James 4:11-12
    Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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    John Chrysostom
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    John 2:23-3
    Nothing makes one so dizzy as human reasoning, which sees everything from an earthly point of view, and does not allow illumination from above. Earthly reasoning is covered with mud. Therefore, we hav...

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    Thomas à Kempis
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    O Light eternal, surpassing all created brightness, flash forth the lightning from above and enlighten the inmost recesses of my heart. Cleanse, cheer, enlighten, and enliven my spirit with all its po...

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    Jen Wilkin
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    Everything we say or do will either illuminate or obscure the character of God. Sanctification is the process of joyfully growing luminous.

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    Gregory Palamas
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    The Light of the Transfiguration of the Lord is not something that comes to be and then vanishes, nor is it subject to the sensory faculties, although it was contemplated by corporeal eyes for a short...

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    Carl Jung
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    As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the w...

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    Brennan Manning
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    The men and women who are truly filled with the light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

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    Victor Hugo
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    Revelation 21:23, 1 Peter 2:9, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Psalm 36:9, Isaiah 60:1
    To love beauty is to see light.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with th...

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    Pope Francis
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    We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence.

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    Helen Keller
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    Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

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    N. T. Wright
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    John 1:4-5, Isaiah 9:2, Isaiah 60:1-2, Luke 2:25-32, Matthew 2:9-10, John 8:1-11
    Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals ...

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy

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    Douglas Kaine McKelvey
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    We praise you, O God, for light in darkness, for bonfires and beacons, for hope and companionship and bright waystations on our journey.

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    J. R. R. Tolkein
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    Galadriel: "May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

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    D. L. Moody
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    Romans 12:2, 1 Peter 1:15-16, Matthew 5:14-16, Ephesians 5:8, Philippians 2:14-15, 1 Timothy 4:12, 2 Corinthians 7:1
    A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns, they just shine.

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    Martin Luther
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    Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteo...

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    Fleming Rutledge
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    Exodus 34:29-35, Isaiah 60:1-3, Ezekiel 1:26-28, John 1:4-5, 14, Matthew 17:1-2, Psalm 104:1-2, John 8:12
    In dictionaries, definitions of glory use words like radiance, splendor, luster, majesty, brilliance, resplendence, grandeur, and effulgence. It is notable that many of these words are associated with...

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    V. Raymond Edman
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    John 8:12, 1 Peter 2:9, James 1:17, Psalm 27:1, 2 Corinthians 4:6
    Never doubt in the dark what God showed you in the light

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    Wendell Berry
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    What I know does not yield a full or adequate accounting for what I have imagined. It seems to have been “given.” My experience has taught me to believe in inspiration, about which I think nobody can ...

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    Vincent van Gogh
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    “You need a certain dose of inspiration, a ray from on high, that is not in ourselves, in order to do beautiful things.”

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    Helen Keller
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    Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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    William L. Watkinson
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    Matthew 18:10-14, Luke 15:1-7, John 8:12, 1 Peter 2:9, Isaiah 60:1, Psalm 18:28
    Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 27:1, 2 Corinthians 4:6, John 8:12, Hebrews 11:1, 1 John 1:7, John 12:46
    In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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    Thomas Fuller
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    If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

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    Marilynne Robinson
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    Wherever you turn your eyes, the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.

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    Avery Brooke
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    John 8:12-20, Psalm 136:, John 1:1-14, Psalm 27:, Isaiah 60:1-5, Psalm 119:105, Hebrews 1:3, John 11:40, Matthew 4:12-17
    When I looked for God in the light, God was not there. When I faced the unfaceable, I found that I had joined God in the darkness. And so, paradoxically, the darkness had become light.

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    Jonathan Edwards
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    2 Corinthians 3:18
    The glory of Christ is such, that it is of a transforming nature. It’s of a powerful nature: it changes all that behold it into the same image; it reaches to the bottom of the heart, to the most inner...

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    Original Author Unknown
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    1 Peter 2:9, John 12:46, 1 Thessalonians 5:5, Psalm 119:105, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Isaiah 60:1
    Blind in heart since my birth, I come to you, Light of the World...Let me live as a child of light.
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