sweetness and light
Noun
Meaning
sweetness and light (uncountable)
(idiomatic, often in the negative or ironic) That which is good, pleasant, pure, etc.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Examples
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Everything, as you well know... cannot always be sweetness and light.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.