"Lux" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dear fellow! Sic transit gloria mundi! Here I've stored everything—mutatis mutandis—that was left of my whole theatrical glory—trash, trash! Old rags! Old tatters!—John! John! She's been here, for the lamp chimney is still quite hot! [He strikes a match and lights the lamp.] Fiat lux, pereat mundus! Now you can get a good view of my paradise of moths and ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann
... "Fiat lux! And there was light." God's first command to His ordered creation (GENESIS 1:3) brought into being the only atomic reality: light. On the beams of this immaterial medium occur all divine manifestations. Devotees of every age testify to the ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur (The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted).—SAINT AUGUSTINE: Works, vol. iii., In Johannis Evang. cap. i. tr. v. ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... demands a deeper and wider basis of these morals, and inquires as to the origin of the Christian doctrine; and then he very soon finds that all light which has come to Europe started from Asia. Ex oriente lux." ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann |
