“Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.”

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.

God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Then I saw a small dark dot enter the lower left corner of the vision. It floated up a ways and then suddenly disappeared.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down – I’m out on a limb here, so watch my back.

Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.