bible and theology on Short-Sightedness

Gracious God, you are omnipotent, reigning over the universe, and ruling over us. You make a way where there seems to be no way. You expand possibilities beyond our dreams. Yet our challenges shrink ...

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

How little we see! What we do see depends mainly on what we look for.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

I can only choose within the world that I can see.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light, but who see nothing in wood, sea, or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books.... It were better far to sail forever in the night of blind...

My eyes account for less than one percent of the weight of my head,” she observes with sweet resignation; “I’m bony and dense; I see what I expect.”).

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

In Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, she mentioned the work of Marius Von Senden who became curious about the effect it had on people who had been born blind to...

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

The inordinate desire in the west to increase productivity, to go faster and faster, especially in business, can actually become counterproductive. In this short story from the Chinese philosopher Men...

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

In one of his letters, the philosopher and psychologist William James shares a conviction regarding his focus not on big, grand things, but with the small “almost invisible” decisions: I am done wit...

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

Heavenly Father, we confess that we too often center our lives around ourselves and our immediate needs, and that this blinds us from being aware of the needs of our neighbors. Help us to know our tru...

Earl Palmer frequently tells the story of a cross-country with two other young pastors early in his pastoral ministry. They were making a cross-country trip from the East Coast back to California. I...

On the effect of seeing for the first time after Cataract Surgery: The mental effort involved in these reasonings proves overwhelming for many patients. It oppresses them to realize, if they ever do ...

I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.

Leaders are rarely the first ones to see an opportunity. They are often the first ones to seize an opportunity.

The reason we are not able to see God is the faintness of our desire.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.