It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light shining in a dark corner. Our ability to shift our perceptions and seek creative alternatives to the conondrums of modernity is in direct proportion to our empathy. Can we imagine, witness, and ultimately feel the suffering of another?
Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.
I don't need a compass to tell me which way the wind shines !
Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs. . . He asks us to let our lights shine.
The sun is always shining someplace
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.
We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light. . . We all have something to give.
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.
It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.
How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from the spires, the spicules of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?
I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.
You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
