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“There is darkness in the world, but it is merely an absence of light. All the darkness in the world cannot dispel even the smallest candle flame. We need only to accustom ourselves to the dim vision, and then the blessing of light will grow.”
Sharon Salzberg • Faith
Our Christian wisdom is to name the darkness as darkness, and the Light as light, and to learn how to live and work in the Light so that the darkness does not overcome us.
Richard Rohr • Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent
🎶Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in 🎶 ~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem
He imparts “the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
J. Oswald Sanders • Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
For glory means good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgement, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.
C. S. Lewis • Weight of Glory
in this dark world, where men and women were dying, where the poor were suffering, where injustice raged in a vast and violent empire, God became flesh and built some furniture.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
But also, deep in the darkness, he felt within him a little glow;
Paul Murray • The Bee Sting: A Novel
There is as much of Jesus present in your local church on a Sunday morning as there is in the special “revival” service taking place in another part of the world.
Andrew Murray • Seeing The Church: When your purpose collides with God's passion
No one in that kingdom need stumble, for they have light.