Quotes About Vision

As you go on your vision retreat annually and surrender your marriage to God, you are taking a huge step to unify your marriage under His authority and with His provision. Unity comes because we aren't two stubborn people trying to impose our wills upon each other. We are two submitted people trying to find God's one will for our purpose together.

There is a wonderful way to forsee the future: create it.

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.

Ah, o tempo é o mágico de todas as traições... E os próprios olhos, de cada um de nós, padecem viciação de origem, defeitos com que cresceram e a que se afizeram mais e mais.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress.

We are driving by the Gateway Arch—the tallest arch in the world. It's made of stainless steel and manages to glisten even on a cloudy day. We've been to the top of it four times. Every time I see it, I remember the early pioneers who pushed west to see what was beyond Missouri. That's what the arch is for—to help you think about courage. Those people had strong hearts and vision. My heart's not strong, but my vision makes up for it.

For this is the vision that unites all seven paths and creates the rainbow bridge to a new earth and a new heaven.

Coalition politics, the building of bridges between disparate groups who share a common vision of how things should be, is a strategy that calls for a tough blend of clarity, compassion, and most of all the willingness to experience someone else's history.

If you want me to do something else useful, you had better show me what that something else is.

Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.

If you imagine where you want to go, you stand a much better chance of getting there.

Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

Identifying imperial fields of force is a multiplex exercise: it entails seizing on the comparisons—of visions and practices—imperial architects and agents themselves performed, locating their temporal and spatial coordinates, and only then recharting the shadowed zones of governance—smudged and effaced, rendered illegibly blurred—on imperial maps.

thinking otherwise is to inhabit them differently, to envision how to recast the resilient impingements and damages to which imperial forms give rise.

Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.

I believe that Jesus wants our spiritual vision to be so clear that we can become spiritual contrarians: people who continue to believe when life is at its worst, people who keep faith though everyone around us loses faith, people who continue to obey no matter how high the cost.

The artist's mind and eye, as the poet's, were subjected to rigorous training. Henceforth, the artist's hands were to create the objects projected from his mind, after its process of selection and alchemy.

You are an explorer. You understand that every time you go into the studio, you are after something that does not yet exist.