Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears.

Sometimes the most difficult things to see are those that have been right in front of us all along… We who have heard the glorious message of the coming of the Son of God, we who have taken upon us His name and have covenanted to walk in His path as His disciples—we must not fail to open our hearts and minds and truly see Him.

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

My birth was a blessing. Sent to live and die on Earth; it's a blessing. We each have a star; all you have to do is find it. Once you do, everyone sees it, you won't be blinded.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

I'm spiritual! You know what spiritual means! Me and God has a good relationship. I'm in tune with the universe, the sun, moon, and stars. I'm in tune with the jinns that are all around us.

In every moment of every day, through a thousand individual manifestations of Itself, is Divinity revealing Itself. Yet we do not see. Or we see, but do not believe. We do not believe the evidence of our own eyes. We do not hear the truth in the sounds of silence.

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.