Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Original: (la) Lex naturae […] nihil aliud est nisi lumen intellectis insitum nobis a Deo, per quod cognoscimus quid agendum et quid vitandum. Hoc lumen et hanc legem dedit Deus homini in creatione.
Source: On the Ten Commandments (c. 1273) Art. 1
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 84
Context: The light is Charity, and the measuring of this light is done to us profitably by the wisdom of God. For neither is the light so large that we may see our blissful Day, nor is it shut from us; but it is such a light in which we may live meedfully, with travail deserving the endless worship of God.
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Pope Francis (1936) 266th Pope of the Catholic Church
2010s, 2013, Interview in La Repubblica
Context: God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us. In the letter I wrote to you, you will remember I said that our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone.
“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).
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter II, Sec. 7
“O'er Nature's laws, God cast the veil of night,
Out blaz'd a Newton's soul — and all was light.”
Aaron Hill (writer) (1685–1750) British writer
Preserved in Hill's Works (1753), Vol. IV, p. 92, and mentioned as probably derived from Alexander Pope's "Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! — and all was light" in The Epigrammatists: A Selection from the Epigrammatic Literature of Ancient, Mediæval, and Modern Times (1875) by Henry Philip Dodd, p. 329.
“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”
Francine Rivers book A Voice in the Wind
Source: A Voice in the Wind
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist
As quoted in Readings in American art, 1900 -1975 (1975) by Barbara Rose, p. 117
1970s and later
Variant: In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
