“When the oil of the lamp is used up the wanker shall light his own way to salvation.”
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)
“Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.”
Tour Through Ceylon; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 273.
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The firefly lights his lamp of love." by Reginald Heber?
Reginald Heber 21
English clergyman 1783–1826Related quotes
“I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.”
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 16 : The Scroll Marked IX, p. 94.
Context: I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
“Sadly I see
the light fade on my palm:
a firefly.”
Mukai Kyorai
(1651–1704) poet
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6. According to Hoffman after his sister's, Chine's, death.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
Context: And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.
"Firefly" on Greta Gaines (1999) http://www.allmusic.com/album/greta-gaines-mw0000068041; the phrase in quotes is a line from a poem of Dylan Thomas. · Full song at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEA4mjwRik&spfreload=10 · Live Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbr63vyH-58
Context: I am waking from a dream,
I am choking on a scream,
You were trying to show me something.
But the dark is wide and long,
The gates are closed, the crowd's all gone,
You're still shimmering and leading me on… Firefly that's what you are
Burning for me in my darkest hour
"Light breaks where no sun shines"
So shine for me tonight — firefly.
Sara Teasdale
(1884–1933) American writer and poet
"Union Square"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
John Ruysbroeck
(1293–1381) Flemish mystic
Evelyn Underhill Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 506
The Sparkling Stone (c. 1340)
Alfred Noyes
(1880–1958) English poet
Apologia
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), Forest of Wild Thyme
Samuel Rutherford
(1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Was falsely attributed to Rutherford by Joni Eareckson-Tada in Heaven: Your Real Home http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cQrPd8R0o0kC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), p. 259 From Edward Payson in " Momentos of Rev. Edward Payson D.D., ed. Edwin L. Janes (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1873), p. 87 https://archive.org/details/mementosofrevedw00pays/mode/2up.
The Original version reads: "... for if you should see a man shut up in a close room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps, and then throw open the shutters, to let in the light of heaven."
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Samuel Rutherford / Misattributed