Definition of "ray of light" []

• A path a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light (noun)
• An inspiring or enlightening person or thing (noun)

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• "Without considering whom they were serving thereby, many so-called 'national' men and parties and organizations, solely from cowardice in the face of Jew-incited public opinion, joined the general outcry and senselessly helped to support the fight against a system which we Germans, precisely in this present-day situation, must feel to be the sole ray of light in this degenerating world."
• "In this connection the reader may derive a ray of light from the fact that on the birth of the Second King's first son, an American missionary, who was on terms of intimacy with the father, named the child “George Washington”; and that child, the Prince George Washington Krom Mu'n Pawarwijagan, is the present Second King of Siam."
• "Long before a ray of light had pierced the primeval darkness that covered earth and sky, when, as yet, the morning star had not been hung as a pendant lamp in the orient, nor the silvery goddess of the evening had snuffed her candle on the occident's setting sun, eternal beings were singing the praises of God."