Words to encourage and inspire

• Light is "faster than a speeding bullet"

• All good paintings begin with light, just as the first words of Creation (in Hebrew) declare, "Let light be, and light is."

• We are daily thankful, in the words of St. Francis of Assisi (fl.1220), "for Brother Sun, who brings us the day and lends us his light."

• "Light" in the English tongue is the opposite of "heavy" as in the words of Jesus of Nazareth, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light."

• Each person is a prism, refracting the pure light of Creation in a dazzling array of colors and hues.

• Even the dark shades of a Rembrandt painting only serve to illuminate the rugged beauty unveiled in the light of a person's eyes.

• "Do not leave my hand without light." (Marc Chagall, 20th century artist)

• Isn't it interesting that we leave the "city lights" in order to gaze at the heavenly lights that shine above us?

• Our very notion of "time" is really the measure of light's journey across the Universe.