Love works a different way in different minds, / The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Interest blinds some people and enlightens others.
Upon my calling for ob, the khan's attendant stares blankly in reply; but an animated individual in the front ranks of the crowd about the doors and windows enlightens him and me at the same time by shouting out, "Ow!
This wakeful night by the roadside enlightens me to the interesting fact that the road is teeming with people all night as well as all day, many preferring to sleep in the shade during the day and travel at night.
Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.
Behold this sun, how high he ascends, and how he sends his beams over all the world, and how he enlightens all this earth which mankind inhabit.
The Holy Ghost does all these things, distributing to everyone as to him seems good; for he is the Almighty Worker, and as soon as he enlightens the mind of a man, he turns it from evil to good.
But if he afterwards resolutely forsake the devil, then will he again have found the grace of the Holy Ghost, whichenlightens his heart and leads to Christ.
True peace drives away discord, and enlightens the darkness of the mind, and envy certainly multiplies anger.
An' from time to time, accordin' as the Colonel's more or less in licker, he enlightens Wolfville on a multitoode of topics.
We cannot say: itenlightens us as to other objects, but not as to itself.
We can conceive extension in a body acting on another body, or in pure space; in the sun which enlightens and warms the world, or in the vague dimensions of an empty immensity.
Likewise, light does not change the figure of the object which it enlightenswith its rays.
Nature is only the image of wisdom; now, if nature occupy no more than the last rank, she must also have only the last degree of the reason that enlightens the Soul.
But, as Intelligence directs its attention to the enlightened object, it does not clearly see the Principle that enlightens them.
Urged on by innumerable impulses, and indued with an intelligence which enlightens our exertions, and enables us to appreciate their results, we have /free will/ to guide and direct us.
Systems exercise the mind, but faith enlightens and guides it.
Philosophy takes no revenge; she smiles in peace at your vain endeavors; she mildly enlightens mankind, whom you would brutalize, to make them like yourselves.
Further, the gift of understanding enlightens the mind in matters which surpass natural reason.
Accordingly the gift of counsel is in the blessed, in so far as God preserves in them the knowledge that they have, and enlightens them in their nescience of what has to be done.
St. Chrysostom says in explanation of John I, 9: “If He enlightens every man that comes into this world, how is it that so many are without light?
Whereas the angel enlightens as a minister, as stated in the First Part (Q.
A happy angel enlightens the intellect of a man or of a lower angel, as to certain notions of the Divine works: but not as to the vision of the Divine Essence, as was stated in the First Part (Q.
But man's intellect is reduced to act, not by God alone, but also by the angel who enlightens it, as Dionysius says (Coel.
Or again, the candlestick and table may signify the Church's teaching, and faith, which also enlightens and refreshes.
If gratuitous grace could cause a man to have sanctifying grace, it would follow that the gratuitous grace was the nobler; even as the brightness of the sun that enlightens is more excellent than that of an object that is lit up.
She enlightens the intellect by her good books, sermons, etc.
At the Last Gospel O JESUS, incarnate Word of the eternal Father, Thou true light which enlightens the world!
During this condition the "Moon" enlightens our hidden chamber with her torch, and shows us ourselves in our interior recess.
For the Divine Spirit which animates and eternises the man, is the God of the man, the Sun that enlightens him.
But he burns centrally and enlightens his fellow, and she gives it forth according to her office.
Each one of them is, in fact, a sun, as large and as brilliant as that which enlightens our day.
It is plain, then, from what has been said that it is spiritual light and not the natural light before our eyes that enlightens the understanding.
This light, not nature's, enlightensthe human intellect.
In accordance with what is in His table the Lord enlightens and empowers everyone, but man receives power and enlightenment so far as he does what he is bidden in his table.
It is this which enlightens the understanding, and infuses a spiritual knowledge, and a heavenly wisdom, which is incomparably more excellent than that in which philosophers pride themselves.
If he reveals his will and speaks to men, it is by the intervention of his prophets, and these he then enlightens by the ministry of angels.
Actual grace is that help of God which enlightens our mind and moves our will to shun evil and do good.
Here we have the normal development of civilization: religious faith enlightens the general conscience, and reveals to it the true conditions of social progress.
Were the sun, which enlightens this part of the creation, with all the host of planetary worlds that move about him, utterly extinguished and annihilated, they would not be missed more than a grain of sand upon the sea-shore.
That true light enlightens as a universal cause, from which the human soul derives a particular power, as we have explained.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels," a gloss remarks that the speech of the angels is an enlightenment whereby the superior enlightens the inferior.
Thus it is possible that some one angel enlightens a man immediately, and yet has other angels beneath him whom he enlightens.
Now every creature may be compared to God, as the air is to the sun which enlightens it.
Whether a superior angel enlightens an inferior angel in all that he knows himself?
An angel causing an imaginative vision, sometimes enlightens the intellect at the same time, so that it knows what these images signify; and then there is no deception.
But the inferior never enlightens the superior, as was above explained (Q.
As our sun, not by reason nor by pre-election, but by its very being, enlightensall things that can participate in its light, so the divine good by its very essence pours the rays of goodness upon everything that exists.
Further, the angel, as above explained, enlightens the human intellect by means of the phantasms.
And since God enlightens by changing the intellect and will, He cleanses by removing defects of intellect and will, and perfects unto the end of the intellect and will.
Further, one angel enlightens the other to whom he turns, as was above explained (A.
Further, a body abounding in light can enlighten a body deficient in light, as the sun enlightens the moon.
Whether the Superior Angel Enlightens the Inferior As Regards All He Himself Knows?
Therefore as the angel enlightens the mind, so can he change the will.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enlightens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
