Inward Light

American  

noun

1. Inner Light.

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Etymology

Origin of Inward Light

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

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Inward Light

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

In his own experience he had discovered that there really and truly is an Inward Light that does shine still, even in the hearts of wicked men.

From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)

In his time, as in our time, the Inward Light could not overcome the Outward Darkness, nor Universal Love, which is Justice and Righteousness, overcome Self Love, which is Covetousness.

From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry