
“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)
Context: Eyes forward! Sing a paean to the light
That God gives us to net the distant stars
In eyes that once were blinded with black earth.
Man had no time for aught but toll, no space
For aught but war. Yet God, in His great love,
Has cleared our eyes and given a hint of Power.
“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sermon IV : True Hearing
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills. If he were ill he would not wish to be well. If he really abides in God's will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him. He is free and gone out from himself, and from all that he receives, he must be free. If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
“My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombie all over my toys, Jesus.”
Anita after a zombie attack
Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Laughing Corpse (1994)
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 111
Context: God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
“God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.”
“In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards.”