Inward Light
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Inward Light
First recorded in 1700–10
Example Sentences
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Instead, members sit together in silence to listen for the "Inward Light."
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2021
And he remained prolific to the end, publishing two books in 2017, two in 2018 and two this year: “Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind” and “Possessed by Memory: The Inward Light of Criticism.”
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2019
Fox, protesting against the sluggish formalism of the English churches, declared that every man must experience a personal revelation of God, an "Inward Light," which availed more than mere parroting of Scripture.
From Time Magazine Archive
This secret is Yoga, the method of self-development whereby the seeker for union is enabled to perceive the shining of the Inward Light.
From Architecture and Democracy by Bragdon, Claude Fayette
In doctrine their chief peculiarity was the assertion of an "Inward Light" by which every individual is to be guided in his conduct of life.
From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by Fiske, John
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