Quotes About Sight

He'd been thinking about the quality of sunshine, that is, how daylight wipes away the stars and the planets, making them invisible to human eyes. If one needed the darkness in order to see the heavens, might daylight be a form of blindness? Could it be that sound was also a form of deafness? If so, what was silence?

The eye records. The eye takes vivid, unforgettable pictures.

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.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green, There is a budding morrow in midnight, There is a triple sight in blindness keen;

I may see you at a greater distance, I may not be able to appropriate you so closely to myself. Were you to loose a favorite bird from the cage, how would your eyes ache after it as long as it was in sight; when out of sight you would recover a little.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

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.

Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.

Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun.

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND

Fifteen days after we are born, we begin to discriminate between colors. For the rest of our lives, barring blunted or blinded sight, we find ourselves face-to-face with all these phenomena at once, and we call the whole shimmering mess "color." You might even say that it is the business of the eye to make colored forms out of what is essentially shimmering. This is how we "get around" in the world. Some might also call it the source of our suffering.

Remember that this world is an illusion as much as the others. We who have sight see what we choose to see and so make it real.

Je croyais voir des choses invisibles aux yeux des autres, j'étais encore plus aveugle qu'eux.

Och tro mig, musiken syns i dina ögon också. Till och med när du blundar.

He turns to blood. Love at first sight, no doubt about it. VIOLA has not seen him. She is doing a daughter's duty among her parents' friends. The guests form up to begin a changing-partners dance (the very same one you get in every ROMEO and JULIET).

and was perhaps even more affecting when it appeared thus without the church. And, indeed, there are many others which look best when seen in this way,

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.

Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood the Tree of Life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit [220] Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the Tree of Knowledge

Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight