“But there is a light that goes deeper than the will, a light that lights up the darkness behind it: that light can change your will, can make it truly yours and not another's - not the Shadow's. Into the created can pour itself the creating will, and so redeem it!”

George MacDonald

George MacDonald - “But there is a light that goes...” 1

Similar quotes

“There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.”

Franco Santoro
Read more

“A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see”

Terry Tempest Williams
Read more

“Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.”

Jyrki Vainonen
Read more

“The wisdom which is now conventional claims that light creates shadows. But the facts are otherwise. Darkness came first and is infinitely older and more enduring than light. Light borrows a little space; then it dies or moves on, and the dark exists again as if it had never been disturbed.”

K.J. Bishop
Read more

“If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.”

Pope John XXIII
Read more