Lauren Oliver Quotes

A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.

Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be totally alone on a hillside and I love that kind of secluded, deserted rawness.

You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

Each Warrior of the Light contains within him the spark of God.

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

God didn't miss any of us.

You are the light of the world. You are an instrument of the Divine. You are the greatest miracle in the world. Life is graced by your presence.

If there is a God, I want to see Him, not only His energy or His light, but Him.

May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

Every luminary in the constellation of human greatness, like the stars, comes out in the darkness to shine with the reflected light of God.

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do--to look into the face of God for ourselves.

Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee!

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.