Quotes about Sight
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
- Pablo Picasso
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.
- Myles Munroe
He stood still for a while and looked with astonishment at the cross. It surprised him that the sight of the cross released him of his burden. He looked and looked again as tears ran down his cheeks. (
- John Bunyan
Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death?Who will stop the coming night?Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.
- Madeleine L'Engle
That is exactly what we need. Eyes to see. Isn't that what Jesus offered us—clarity? Recovery of sight for the blind (Luke 4:18)? We need clarity and we need it badly. A simple prayer rises from my heart: Jesus, take away the fog and the clouds and the veil, and help me to see... give me eyes to really see.
- John Eldredge
The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.
- Kevin DeYoung
Thou at the sight Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee raised I ruin all my foes, Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave.
- John Milton
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
- John Milton
Welcome to the human race. It is somehow essential to human life as God has ordained it that we can know the final score of yesterday but not tomorrow. It doesn't mean we're condemned to anxiety. It does mean this: If you're looking for certainty, you've chosen the wrong species. You can walk by faith, but not by sight; not down here.
- John Ortberg
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
- Joy Davidman