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LIGHT AND FAITH

Why curse the darkness when you can light a candle?
~Thomas Kinkade

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
~Helen Keller


When you come to the edge of all the light you have
And take that first step into the unknown
You must believe one of two things will happen:

There will be something solid to stand upon
Or, you will be taught how to fly.
~Patrick Overton

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
~Edith Wharton

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~ Samuel Smiles

We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
~Martha Grimes

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.
~Elizabeth Kubler Ross

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
~Willa Cather

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
~Dale Carnegie

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
~Lord Byron

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
~Charles A. Beard

Help your brother’s boat across, and before you know it, your own has reached the shore.
~Hindu Proverb


Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
~Talmud

Thou didst bear unmoved
Blasts of adversity and frosts of fate!

But the first ray of sunshine that falls on thee
Melts thee to tears.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
C.S.Lewis

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
~Charlotte Bronte

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~Vincent Van Gogh

I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi


Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
~ Joel 2:28 KJV

If you can dream it, you can do it.
~Walt Disney

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery


And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
~Genesis 1:3 KJV

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
~Helen Keller

There never was a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
~Bern Williams

To hope and dream is not to ignore the practical. It is to dress it in colors and rainbows.
~Anne Wilson Schaef

Nothing that is beautiful is easy, but everything is possible.
~Mercedes de Acosta

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~Oscar Wilde

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
~Jeremiah 29:11 NJV

A little light dispels much darkness.
~Issachar Eilenburg

Stand in the light when you want to speak out.
~Crow Proverb

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune
without the words,
And never stops at all. . .
~Emily Dickinson


A rising tide lifts all boats.
~John F. Kennedy

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be seen from the top of the mountain. So many things are learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
~Charles Hadden Spurgeon

Let your hook be always cast: in the pool where you least expect it will be a fish.
~Ovid

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
~Alexander Pope

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Joseph Addison

All human wisdom is summed up in two words, — wait and hope.
~Alexandre Dumas Père

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