Yosemite National Park, CA
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Glory in Christ and you can bask in His light forever.
- Woodrow Kroll
Yosemite National Park, CA
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.
- Thomas Adams
Mono Lake, CA
The people who walk in darkness Will see a great light; Those who live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- Blaise Pascal
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, CA
but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.'
- C.S. Lewis
Silver Falls State Park, OR
I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
- Jonathan Edwards
Grand CanyonNational Park, AZ
The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
- G.K. Chesterton
Eastern Sierra, CA
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
- Dwight L. Moody
Redwood National Park, CA
Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous.
We are to order our lives by the light of His Law, not by our guesses about His plan.
- J.I. Packer
Eastern Sierra, CA
For You light my lamp; The LORD my God illumines my darkness.
Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.
- Theodore Epp
Yosemite National Park, CA
And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!
- A. W. Pink
Death Valley National Park, CA
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.
As the sun can be seen only by its own light, so Christ can be known only by His own Spirit.
- Robert Leighton
Yosemite National Park, CA
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.
- Watchman Nee
Death Valley National Park, CA
But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”
We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.
- Jonathan Edwards
Yosemite National Park, CA
for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
While we cannot know a person's heart, we can see his light. Allowing sin to go unconfessed can dim God's light and hinder the effectiveness of a life's testimony.
- Paul Chappell
Eastern Sierra, CA
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
Eastern Sierra, CA
For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.
There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.
- John Newton
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
A Christian may for many days together see neither sun nor star, neither light in God's countenance, nor light in his own heart, though even at that time God darts some beams through those clouds upon the soul; the soul again by a spirit of faith sees some light through those thickest clouds, enough to keep it from utter despair, though not to settle it in peace. In this dark condition, if they do as Paul and his company did, cast an anchor even in the dark night of temptation, and pray still for day, God will appear, and all shall clear up, we shall see light without and light within; the day-star will arise in their hearts.
- Richard Sibbes
Yosemite National Park, CA
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Consider the life you live-how do other people perceive your faith? While God doesn't expect you to live in perfection, He desires that you would do all you can to shine forth His light so others will see Him clearly.
- Paul Chappell
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
- Francis Bacon
Yosemite National Park, CA
"This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. "But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God."
Measure not God's love and favor by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
- Richard Sibbes
Death Valley National Park, CA
And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
Virtue-even attempted virtue-brings light; indulgence brings fog.
- C.S. Lewis
Yosemite National Park, CA
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.
- G.V. Wigram
Dead Horse Point State Park, UT
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
When you are reading a book in a dark room, and come to a difficult part, you take it to a window to get more light. So take your Bibles to Christ.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
The unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
Eastern Sierra, CA
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light!
Redwood National Park, CA
For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light.
The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. "But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
The night is almost gone, and the day is near. Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Silver Falls State Park, OR
Light arises in the darkness for the upright; He is gracious and compassionate and righteous.
For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
Yosemite National Park, CA
O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your dwelling places.
But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
Eastern Sierra, CA
Light is sown like seed for the righteous And gladness for the upright in heart.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Zion National Park, UT
