This institution of Heaven, when properly attended to, understood, and cordially embraced, turns men from darkness to marvelous light. If it finds them in a state of savage ignorance and barbarity it civilizes them, and forms them to be intelligent and good members of society.

Samuel Hopkins

Darkness Heaven Men

Related Quotes

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

— Samuel Hopkins

BeingCannotCommunity

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

— Samuel Hopkins

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

— Colum McCann

darknessgodheaven

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. In a way. I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to . . . me.

— Samuel Beckett

darknesslonliness

Where billows never break, not tempests roar.

— Sir Samuel Garth