#darkness

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#darkness #diminish #glory #god #him

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. ↗

— John Locke

#darkness #eyes #into #looked #men

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. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#another #darkness #distant #each #life

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. ↗

— James Madison

#anywhere #darkness #despotism #done #everywhere

At the dawn of his administration, President Obama opined: 'A democracy requires accountability, and accountability requires transparency.' Magical rays of white-hot sunlight emanated from his media-manufactured halo. And then bureaucratically engineered darkness settled over the land. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#administration #darkness #dawn #democracy #emanated

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore. ↗

— William Manchester

#dead #end #evermore #i #like

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. ↗

— Charles Manson

#demons #devils #did #i #loose

I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me. ↗

— Marc Maron

#concert #darkness #first #heart #high

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you. ↗

— Walter Martin

#aligned #army #become #christ #darkness

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#i #interval #silence #sound #space