The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.
The heart of man will always be dark. There will always be evil people. The problem is that there is nothing we can humanly do to change them.
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.