Sermon quotes on eyes
Mark Batterson
Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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.
Annie Dillard
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.”).
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
James Joyce
Shut your eyes and see.
Helen Keller
Look the world straight in the eye.
George Herbert
The eyes have one language everywhere.
Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Mother Teresa
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
Mark Twain
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
Groucho Marx
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by watchin’.
Marilynne Robinson
Wherever you turn your eyes, the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
No sign that ever was given
To faithful or faithless eyes
Showed ever beyond clouds riven
So clear a paradise.
Earth’s creeds may be seventy times seven
And blood have defiled each creed
But if such be the kingdom of heaven
It must be heaven indeed.
Of Such Is the Kingdom of Heaven
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur.”
Translation: The essential is invisible to the eyes, we see only with the heart.
Vincent van Gogh
I prefer painting people’s eyes to cathedrals. For there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the latter may be — a human soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a street walker, is more interesting to me.
Thomas Aquinas
Where love is, there is the eye.
Quoted by Josef Pieper in Happiness and Contemplation (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 1998), 71.
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