Quotes about Visibility
From the human perspective, the purpose of the church meeting is mutual edification. But from God's perspective, the purpose of the gathering is to express His glorious Son and make Him visible. (The church is the body, and Christ is the Head. The purpose of one's body is to express the life that's within it.)
- Frank Viola
I will see great things when I am willing to be seen. I will receive new eyes that see the mysteries of GOD's own life, but only when I allow God to see me, all of me, even those parts that I myself do not want to see.
- Henri Nouwen
Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.
- Margaret Atwood
I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or to be seen. I wonder if, in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing.
- Margaret Atwood
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
- Margaret Atwood
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.
- Anne Lamott
Humans are lonely, and they want to be seen and known.
- Seth Godin
The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.
- Ricky Gervais
What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?
- George Eliot
True love is something seen and known by others.
- Sam Storms
God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible
- John Piper
Let your light shine before others, sothat they may see your good works." So the motive at stake is not simply whether you want your acts to be known by others, but why you want them to be known—that God be glorified, or that you be admired.
- John Piper