I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.
I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
God shall be my hope, My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
Here and there the lantern of compassion can be shown to the fish, where the fishhook is swallowed or suffocation practiced.
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
The light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.
For life alone is creator of life,
And closest contact with the human world
Is like a lantern shining in the night
To light me to a knowledge of myself.
Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog.
In Holman Hunts painting, 'The Light of the World, 'Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, 'Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door.' 'That,' Hunt answered, 'is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside.'
Open the door to-night
Within your heart, and light
The lantern of love there to shine afar.
Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
The effort of the economist is to 'see,' to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the better the more elements he can grasp and hold in his mind at once, the better. The economic world is a misty region. The first explorers used unaided vision. Mathematics is the lantern by which what before was dimly visible now looms up in firm, bold outlines. The old phantasmagoria disappear. We see better. We also see further.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories