Brightness Quotes

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his life….

"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have.

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can’t see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.

More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

You must rise above The gloomy clouds Covering the mountaintop Otherwise, how will you Ever see the brightness?

One can make a day of any size

The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all things come to see.

Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude!

God's glory is the created brightness that surrounds God’s revelation of himself.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

The exceeding brightness of this early sun Makes me conceive how dark I have become.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

In natures, we see God, as it were, like the sun in a picture; in the law, as the sun in a cloud; in Christ we see Him in His beams; He being 'the brightness of His glory, and the exact image of His person.

Nor is the darkness of colour a proof of the earth's baseness; for the brightness of the sun, which is visible to us, would not be perceived by anyone who might be in the sun.

The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from the Bessemer converter.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.