The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in a whole book. Yet there are some who would tell us that the Bible is no more God’s book than other books. Either they have not read the Bible, or they have read it with their eyes closed.
—R. A. Torrey
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
God suffers his dear children to fall into little miscarriages, that the eye may not say to the hand, ‘I have not need of thee;’ or again, the head to the foot, ‘I have no need of thee.’
—George Whitefield
Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.
—George Whitefield
“We lay in our death quite unable to raise ourselves therefrom; ours were eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear; a heart that could not love; and a withered hand that could not be stretched out to give the touch of faith.”
I cannot close my eyes to the fact that, by eating meat, I demand the murder of living beings to satisfy my luxurious lifestyle and my taste.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
—Michelangelo
“Christ’s eyes never slumber,
his hands never rest,
and his shoulders are never weary of carrying his people’s burdens.”
— Charles Spurgeon
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
—Franz Kafka
Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
His eyes are pleased with the sight of a thankful heart.
—Jonathan Edwards
To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.
—Pablo Picasso
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
—Pablo Picasso
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
—Heraclitus
Let others grumble that they see no fairies nor muses, I rejoice that my eyes see the erect eternal world…without blur or halo.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain
She’s only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
—Henry David Thoreau
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.
—Miyamoto Musashi
It is necessary to keep one ‘s compass in one ‘s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
—Michelangelo
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
—Henry Ford
They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.
—John Milton
Above all, sooner forget your Christian name, than forget to eye Christ!
—John Wesley
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
—Sigmund Freud
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
—Socrates