Lamps Quotes

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

Light that is One though the lamps be many.

For the dharma to become firsthand knowledge-to feel the ‘ouch’ of it-you have to live intimately with it, hold it up to scrutiny, and let it hold you up to scrutiny. In the end, the ball is always thrown back to you: ‘Be a lamp unto yourself,’ says the Buddha. In other words, you must ultimately find the way on your own, by putting your ideas of the truth to the test. Your questions light the way.

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.

The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us.

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

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.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Let not the hours pass by in the dark. Kindle the lamp of love with thy life.

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

If you take from a theory only the conclusions you like and discard the rest, you are using the theory as a drunkard uses a lamp post-for support rather than illumination.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.

Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.

The cross-eyed fool sees one lamp as two; The vision and the viewer are one

Courage is adversity's lamp.

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one. Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps.