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One who is grateful for the sun is grateful for its heat and light, so the one who loves God ought also to love God's will.

How powerful a prayer is the act of faith made in darkness. The Saints rejoice at such cries of delight to God from our 'dark' world.

Just as every breath of gas into a balloon contributes to its enlargement and its flight, so prayer enlarges the soul.

Standing behind the altar are two holy angels: tall, awesome, beautiful as a shape in firelight, gleaming gold on head and wing.

With faith and longing we can open the 'door' of the soul from inside and allow God's light to shine within us

With faith and longing we can open the 'door' of the soul from inside and allow God's light to shine within us

At 'Corpus Christi' feast (the Sacred Body and Blood of Christ) brilliant rays of light streamed from the elevated Host.

By seeing our daily life, in God's light, we see the 'layers' of praise, work, resentments, unforgiven sins, unremedied wrongs - like taking samples of core from the ground.

The Most Holy Spirit is like a lamp, shining above us, as we make our way towards Christ in Heaven.

At the centre of the Basilica of Knock shrine, I saw Jesus during the Holy Mass; He was blazing with light, a mitre on His head.

We see the Holy Scriptures as printed words on paper, yet God's light and wisdom pour through the text upon those who will approach them, while others choose to stand in the darkness.

God's light and wisdom pour through the text of the Holy Scriptures on all who approach them with humility and faith

God, the source of all light and wisdom, nourishes us through words and through teachers; but in Communion, we meet the Divine Son, the whole Person.

A blaze of light streams upwards to Heaven, from the heart of a baby whose heart, after baptism, is full of Divine Life.

No-one is denied mercy who asks for it. But one who will not open to love's rays of light is not able to accept mercy.

The least scrap of pride or self-righteousness prevents God's light from pouring within the soul, as surely as when the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

Just as light and air pour into a hollow space beneath sand, God's grace pours into a soul 'hollowed' by acts of self-abnegation.

At this shrine, the door of Heaven was flung open, Heaven's light poured into our darkness, and Holy Saints were eager to greet us.

In the heart and mind of one who welcomes Him, the Holy Spirit is like a lamp, a source of wisdom and infinite power, and the means of prayer.

God's light, pouring into the soul of one who is reconciled, reveals only minor imperfections, which sometimes seem unavoidable in life on earth.