Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I do have a clear vision, and I do see things that are existing in my quote-unquote spirit, but that doesn't necessary make me a very spiritual person.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

Paul Brunton's Notebooks are a veritable treasure-trove of philosophic-spiritual wisdom.

A man without vision is a man without God.

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?

All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

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

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love and what makes us godly. And then if you read between the lines of all the same books, you always see the human influence in the writing... it's not all about religiousness, it's about spirituality.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn't do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, 'Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.' And he said, 'Visions come to prepared spirits.' The way Billy Wilder put it was 'The muse has to know where to find you.'

The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.