“If the light is
It is because God said 'Let there be light.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
At Sunrise, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Shadowfever
“If the light is
It is because God said 'Let there be light.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
At Sunrise, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter
“God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image."”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) English dramatist and writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 257.
Aurelius Augustinus book The City of God
XI, 9
The City of God (early 400s)
Context: For when God said, “Let there be light, and there was light,” if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God; so that they, being illumined by the Light that created them, might themselves become light and be called “Day,” in participation of that unchangeable Light and Day which is the Word of God, by whom both themselves and all else were made. “The true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world,” — this Light lighteth also every pure angel, that he may be light not in himself, but in God; from whom if an angel turn away, he becomes impure, as are all those who are called unclean spirits, and are no longer light in the Lord, but darkness in themselves, being deprived of the participation of Light eternal. For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name “evil.”
“Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!”
Source: Hellas (1821), l. 682