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Quotes About Vision

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Naught is all else to me, save that thou art. Thou my best thought by day and by night, Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light. Be thou my wisdom, thou my true word; I ever with thee, thou with me, Lord.
~ Brennan Manning
He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.
~ Brennan Manning
The gospel vision is precise on this point: we can't be worshiping some vague deity above the clouds; we can't be acknowledging Jesus Christ living within us and ignoring him in those around u. Two central facts of Christianity emerge - Christ is in you, and Christ is in me - and in the end, as Saint Augustine said, "there will be the one Christ loving himself.
~ Brennan Manning
I think I have shown in my daily life that my feet are on the earth while the tips of my thoughts touch the stars.
~ Helen Keller
Those who have eyes see little .
~ Hellen Keller
What doesn't exist you have to create yourself. Even a dream can be plucked out of your head and shaped for a purpose.
~ Henning Mankell
Someone must lead the way.
~ Henning Mankell
It's always better to have four eyes look at something than two." "I'm not so sure about that," said Wallander
~ Henning Mankell
The world says, "When you were young you were dependent and could not go where you wanted, but when you grow old you will be able to make your own decisions, go your own way, and control your own destiny." But Jesus has a different vision of maturity: It is the ability and willingness to be led where you would rather not go.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
The more we come to the painful confession of our loneliness, hostilities and illusions, the more we are able to see solitude, hospitality and prayer as part of the vision of our life.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths, and skies and seas around. —
~ Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to our imagination
~ Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas for our imagination
~ Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, its what you see
~ Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau