Noun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
Source: WordNetMoons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. Franz Grillparzer
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow. William Faulkner
The heretics have not thought and suffered and died in vain. Every heretic has been, and is, a ray of light. Robert G. Ingersoll
No ray of Light can shine if severed from its source. Without my inner Light I lose my course. Angelus Silesius
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors. John Ruskin
Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's first natural philosophers must have been, face to face with the phenomena of nature, before their science had been elaborated and had cast a ray of light over the unknown. Marcel Proust