Darkness
Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of departure; it is not an ultimate destination. Strong testimony is the foundation upon which conversion is established. Testimony alone is not and will not be enough to protect us in the latter-day storm of darkness and evil in which we are living.
You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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