Pastoral Resources

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

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.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

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 from within.

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.