Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.
The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
Lighting one candle from another - Winter night
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!
Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?
I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.