Quotes about Sight

What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had but another life to live, and that God would but try them once again; one crying out of this neglect of duty, and another of his loitering and trifling, when he should have been labouring for his life; what manner of person would you have been after such a sight as this ? (284)

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament.

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

For God himself the height of feeling free Must have been His success in simile When at sight of you He thought of me.

the power of a lens is incredible.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.