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Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.
John Piper (theologian)
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He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.
James Joyce
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Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.
Laini Taylor
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Her dæmon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up in the darkness of the hall.
Philip Pullman
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The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Western classical music, to be sure, is not part of traditional Iranian culture, and yes it's elitist. But the fact that the Tehran symphony Orchestra and the Roudaki Hall have survived the vagaries of these past three decades is yet another evidence that the forces of darkness, the cult of death, martyrdom and superstition has not conquered the spirit of our nation.
Reza Pahlavi
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The name of cockroach is a double absurdity, as it is neither a cock nor a roach. The name, indeed, is a contraction of a Lingua-Franca word, which signifies light-shunner, and is therefore peculiarly appropriate to the darkness-loving cockroach.
Norman MacLeod
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Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel....
Meher Baba
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In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.
Francesca Lia Block
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He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.
Cassandra Clare
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A light is gone from yonder sky,
A star has left its sphere;
The beautiful—and do they die
In yon bright world as here?
Will that star leave a lonely place,
A darkness on the night?—
No; few will miss its lovely face,
And none think heaven less bright!
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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"The night of time far surpasseth the day," said Sir Thomas Browne, and it is the task of archaeology to light up some parts of this long night with its torch, which burns ever with a clearer flame with each advancing step into the darkness.
Charles Eliot Norton
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
E. E. Cummings
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If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
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An observer of our biological sciences today sees dark figures moving over a bridge of glass. We are faced with an ever expanding universe of light and darkness. The greater the circle of understanding becomes, the greater is the circumference of surrounding ignorance.
Erwin Chargaff
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He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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In the darkness…the sound of a man
Breathing, testing his faith
On emptiness, nailing his questions
One by one to an untenanted cross.
R. S. Thomas
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The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
Irving Greenberg
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Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Which meant his only assets were one whiny imprisoned goddess, one sort-of-girlfriend with a dagger, and Leo, who apparently thought he could defeat the armies of darkness with breath mints.
Rick Riordan
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A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose,
Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?
Nathalia Crane
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Hope is the destination that we seek.
Love is the road that leads to hope.
Courage is the motor that drives us.
We travel out of darkness into faith.
Dean Koontz
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It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.
Sarah J. Maas
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The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.
Pope Benedict XVI
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