Personal Development on Blindness

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Tertullian
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- Blindness
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Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:1-23, Isaiah 6:9-10, John 9:39-41, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 1:18
Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.
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Blaise Pascal
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- Blindness
- Evil
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Proverbs 14:12, 1 Peter 1:15-16, Galatians 6:7, James 1:22, Romans 2:6
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.
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Regaining Sight
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David Peterson
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Psalm 146:8, Isaiah 35:5, Isaiah 42:16, John 9:, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 1:18
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...
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Victor Hugo
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- Blindness
- Receiving Love
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1 John 4:10, 2 Corinthians 4:6, 1 Corinthians 4:6, Romans 8:38-39, Luke 18:42, Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 146:8
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assura...
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Helen Keller
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Habakkuk 2:2, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Ephesians 1:18, Proverbs 29:18, John 9:39
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
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Timothy Keller
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2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Proverbs 28:13, Matthew 5:3, Isaiah 6:5, Psalm 51:3-4, James 4:10
If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.
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God of healing, we look for you in all
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Austin D. Hill
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John 9:1-7, Mark 8:22-25, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Psalm 146:8, Isaiah 55:8-9, Luke 24:13-32, Acts 9:1-19
God of healing, we look for you in all the wrong places. We assume we have figured out how you are at work. Because of this, we miss out on seeing your glory, and we fail to join with you as partners ...
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Spiritual Blindness in The Magician’s Nephew
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C. S. Lewis
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1 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Matthew 13:13-15, Acts 28:27, Hebrews 3:7-8, Jeremiah 7:24, John 10:27, Mark 6:52
Jesus is clear that it is dangerous to close one’s ears, eyes, and heart to the leadings of the Holy Spirit. In The Magician’s Nephew , a novel from C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series, Narnia i...
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Even in our moments of doubt, our lack of faith
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Jacob Traeger
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Romans 8:38-39, Mark 6:1-13, Romans 5:1, Psalm 139:1-18, Matthew 6:14-15, Mark 11:25-26, Acts 5:31
Even in our moments of doubt, our lack of faith, and the blindness which means we fail to see God amongst us, God is still at work. God is still healing. God is still forgiving. Even when you fail to ...
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Holding on to the Extreme
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Linda Evans Shepherd
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- Possessions
- Blindness
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Matthew 6:19-21, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Luke 12:15, Matthew 16:26
Have you ever seen an episode of the A&E TV show Hoarders? It’s a show about perfectly normal-looking people who live in perfectly normal-looking houses who become overwhelmed by their possessions...
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The Love of God Wrapped About Him
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Thomas Kelly
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Psalm 4:1-3, Psalm 30:5, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 23:4, Job 1:, Job 2:, Job 42:, 2 Samuel 11:, 2 Samuel 12:, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 17:8-24, Daniel 6:, Psalm 34:18
The sense of Presence! I have spoken of it as stealing on one unawares. It is recorded of John Wilhelm Rowntree that as he left a great physician’s office, where he had just been told that his advanci...
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Eternal God, in whom we live and move
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Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
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Eternal God, in whom we live and move and have our being, whose face is hidden from us by our sins, and whose mercy we forget in the blindness of our hearts: Cleanse us from all our offenses, and del...
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Prayer for Wholeness
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Philippians 4:6-7, Revelation 21:4, Romans 8:37-39, John 16:33, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Matthew 11:28-30
Victorious Christ Our Sovereign and Savior We cry out for your saving power Reveal your healing and wholeness In our sickness, our suffering Our lamenting, our loss Reveal your healing and wholeness...
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Jonathan Swift
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- Blindness
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2 Peter 1:9, Ephesians 4:18, Revelation 3:17, Romans 1:21, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Matthew 15:14
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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Fanny Crosby
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Matthew 5:8, Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 27:4, John 9:39, Revelation 22:4, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Hebrews 11:1
If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind... for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Savior.
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Original Author Unknown
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- Blindness
- Light
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1 Peter 2:9, John 12:46, 1 Thessalonians 5:5, Psalm 119:105, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Isaiah 60:1
Blind in heart since my birth, I come to you, Light of the World...Let me live as a child of light.
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William Shakespeare
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- Blindness
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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Desiderius Erasmus
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Ephesians 1:18, Proverbs 29:18, Psalm 119:18, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Revelation 3:17-18, Isaiah 42:7, John 9:39
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Romans 5:8, John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, Matthew 18:21-35, 2 Samuel 12:1-7, Romans 14:10-13, James 4:11-12
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.
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Missing the Stars
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- Blindness
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2 Corinthians 4:18, Colossians 3:1-2, Ephesians 1:18, Psalm 119:18, Matthew 13:16-17, Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1
Søren Kierkegaard told a parable about a rich man riding in a lighted carriage driven by a peasant who sat behind the horse in the cold and dark outside. Precisely because he sat near the artificial l...
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He Once Was Blind
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Max Lucado
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- Blindness
- Physical Blindness
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Psalm 19:1-4, Psalm 146:8, Isaiah 35:5, Isaiah 42:16, John 9:, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Ephesians 1:18
For fifty-one years Bob Edens was blind. He couldn’t see a thing. His world was a black hall of sounds and smells. He felt his way through five decades of darkness. And then, he could see. A skilled s...
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Jonathan Haidt
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- Blindness
- Politics
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Galatians 5:14-15, John 8:32, Micah 6:8, 1 Corinthians 1:10, Matthew 7:3-5, Romans 12:2, James 3:17
People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.
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Karl Barth
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Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
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Holy God, we know that you created us
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Holy God, we know that you created us in love, to enjoy this world and You, to serve your creation and your children. And we know that we do not do your will. With clenched hands, we can neither give...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a p...
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Amazing grace How sweet the
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Austin D. Hill
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Galatians 2:20, 1 Peter 1:3, Romans 6:4, Colossians 3:10, Titus 2:11-12, John 1:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17
Amazing grace How sweet the sound. That saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, But now am found. Was blind, but now I see. Lord of all, you have called us toward a new way of life. Give...
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The Invisible Gorilla
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Mark Batterson
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Matthew 13:13-15, Luke 8:10, Isaiah 6:9-10, John 9:39, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 1:18
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons conducted an experiment at Harvard University more than a decade ago that became infamous in psychology circles. Their book The Invisible Gorilla popularized it...
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Self-Deception Discovers False Solutions
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The Arbinger Institute
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Self-deception . . . blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we’re blind, all the “solutions” we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception ob...
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Leader: The word of the Lord to the
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Jacob Traeger
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Matthew 13:14-15, Matthew 11:4-6, Psalm 51:17, Hebrews 3:15, Isaiah 6:9-10
Leader: The word of the Lord to the prophet Isaiah says: You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive. For this people's heart has grown dull, and with the...
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Inspired by 1 John 1 & 4
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Scott B. Bullock
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1 John 4:20, 1 John 1:5
God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. But often, we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness. By doing so, we lie and do not live out the truth. We too easily claim t...