Sight Quotes - Page 28

• To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Couple, Age, Aging

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “Henry Esmond: The English Humourists; The Four Georges”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Offending, Names, Saint

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.2042, Bible Study Steps

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• Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith.

  Paul Brunton

  Faith, Spiritual, Intelligent

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• I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their early adult life. Darkness would make them more appreciative of sight; silence would teach them the joys of sound.

  Helen Keller

  Fear, Blessing, Worry

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• Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

  Ovid

  Eye, Soul, Vision

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• What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Vision, Born

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• Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

  Keith Crown

  Vision, Looks, Gulls

  Keith Crown (1967). “Crown: Keith Crown, Painter : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, June 30-July 21, 1967”

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

  Mark Zimmermann

  Christmas, Wise, Jesus

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• A beautiful blossom is a fleeting thing It stays for a moment and then takes wing: With special rays we catch it ere flight So all may enjoy the beautiful sight.

  Albert Richards

  Beautiful, Wings, Vision

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• Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

  John Robert Seeley

  History, Literature, Relation

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

  Saint Augustine

  Easter, Heart, Departed

  "Confessions".

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• Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spirituality, Accepting, Deny

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.54, Penguin

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• I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Networking, Stories

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• The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Men

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.133, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• To achieve in sports you first have to have a dream, and then you must act on that dream. The best athletes are those who truly enjoy what they are doing and display a tremendous amount of work ethic. They continue to persevere in spite of setbacks and never lose sight of their ultimate goal.

  Dianne Holum

  Success, Sports, Dream

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• I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Believe, Thinking

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• The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new, but to the continuous evolution of zoologic types which develop ceaselessly and end by becoming unrecognisable to the common sight, but where an expert eye finds always traces of the prior work of the centuries past. One must not think then that the old-fashioned theories have been sterile and vain.

  Henri Poincare

  Eye, Science, Past

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.328, Modern Library

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• Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Confused, Real

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

  Esther Williams

  Betrayal, Long, People

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• You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

  John Dryden

  Water, Crooked, Seems

  John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• It is the month of June,
  The month of leaves and roses,
  When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
  And pleasant scents the noses.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotation" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine
  The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights
  And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine,
  The foliage of the valleys and the heights.
  Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;
  The mower's scythe makes music to my ear;
  I am the mother of all dear delights;
  I am the fairest daughter of the year.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Daughter, Mother, Spring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1047, Delphi Classics

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• He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Mean, Humility, Men

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• Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

  Rumi

  Wine, Thoughtful, Color

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