Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.
It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.
A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.
There are very few religious experiences that aren't explained using the vocabulary of light.
Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.
The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.
Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
