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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Light'

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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
Austin Dobson, English Celebrity (1912-1963)
What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!
Rita Dove, American Poet (1952-  )
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
Helen Dunmore, British Poet (1952-  )
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle, American Poet
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding, English Novelist (1707-1754)
My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.
Richard Foreman, Playwright (1937-  )
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost, American Poet (1874-1963)
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost, American Poet (1874-1963)
I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as the y seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.
J. William Fulbright, American Politician (1905-1995)
The brave love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay, English Poet (1685-1732)
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay, English Poet (1685-1732)
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran, Poet (1883-1931)
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran, Poet (1883-1931)
It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
Jeff Goldblum, American Actor (1952-  )
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory, American Comedian (1932-  )
In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.
Paul Harris, Entertainer
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
Elias Hicks, American Clergyman (1748-1830)
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Ernest Holmes, American Theologian
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer (1809-1894)
 
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