Divine Vision Quotes

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.

Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.

But now mine own eyes have beheld God; but not my natural, but my spiritual eyes, for my natural eyes could not have beheld; for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory was upon me; and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before him.

It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).

The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go.