“I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.” PeopleHumansChildrenLittlesEyeAbleIndividualChurchSleepBaseballDrinkingBoredHuman LifeEnjoymentConfinedFathom Author:Criss Jami
“Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.” FirstsEyeTodayChristianChurchBlindChristian InspirationalSpotsRepentRevivalEvangelismBlind Spots Author:Vance Havner
“Our prayer service today and my words are not meant to demonize anyone, but are intended to call attention to the diabolical influences of the devil that have penetrated our culture, both in the state and in the Church. These demonic influences are not readily apparent to the undiscerning eye, which is why they are so deceptive.” StatesEyeTodayCultureChurchPrayerAttentionInfluenceDevilOur PrayersDeceptiveDemonicDiabolical Author:Thomas J. Paprocki
“What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.” EyeChurchFourOughtParticipationPreservationExhibitsProclamationPropagation Book:Revive Us Again Source: Revive Us Again
“Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.” BelieveHumansEyeSchoolI BelieveChurchSilenceWonderTeacherSeeingStandingHills Author:Alfred Stieglitz
“A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.” WholeBodyEyeUsedStrongChurchMusicFeetInfluenceTearsHolinessHeirsExpressiveGreat Influence Author:Mahalia Jackson
“I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.” EyeChurchWhiteCitiesTreeSweetSightBlueMadTiredTrackTunesSquaresCurvesRailroadsRailroad TracksParthenon Author:Amy Lowell
“If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.” IfsEyeFacesLyingHumanityJesusNamesChurchWorshipPraiseCourtShiningHealTemplesGatesHer EyesMiraculousLameEucharisticAlone With God Author:Frederic Dan Huntington
“Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!” WritingImportantBookRealEyeTodayChristianReadingOpportunityVoiceChurchTalkingIssuesPerspectiveReaderFemaleWideOpeningShockedUnseenEssaysAvoidedSpectrumTabooPresentingChorusCandidBracesEye OpeningBucklesGroundbreakingChristian WomenFemale Voice Author:Carolyn Custis James
“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!” YearsLooksBookDifferentEyeChurchFiveBuildingExpressionYears AgoStonesTwentiesIntelligentFormerClockFriendlyTowers Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.” WorldGivingIdeasRealCharacterGovernmentEyeSchoolSexTermChurchMoralOpinionSocietyFieldsMetsAmbitionTheaterUniversityMeritRealmsLazyCrownsStampsArenaPublic OpinionCradleFixingSpursPretensionCrucibleOutrunTribunals Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.” WorldArtRealityEyeArtistValuesBeliefGivenChurchAttitudeCenturyAcceptanceExpressionInvolvedMajorsMovedPhotographerMeaningfulCelebrateTwentieth CenturyMajor ChangePersonal Expression Author:Jerry Uelsmann
“I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.” MenShouldBelieveEyeGivenI BelieveChurchAuthorityMen And Women Author:Jimmy Carter
“When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!” IfsFirstsChildrenFeelingsEyeReligionWishChurchMorningBedDistanceSavedSpotsEveningSinnerSundayGodlyFridayMy WishRosySunday MorningCatechismDay Of RestBed Time Author:Lewis Carroll
“Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of their God on Earth, the Pope, that what they admire, is after all, but the caricatured head-dress, the Amazon-like helmet of Pallas Athene, the heathen goddess Minerva! In fact, there is scarcely a rite or ceremony of the christian Church that does not descend from Occultism.” LittlesDoeFactsEyeEarthChristianReligionChurchDressesAdmireLiftsSuspectsGoddessPopeCeremonyAdorationAmazonMuteRiteHelmetChristian ChurchHeathenWorshippersMinerva Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.” TwoEyeChurchEnglandEnthusiasmProtestantismChurch Of England Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.” PersonsEyeChristianSpiritLeadershipChurchPoorPoor In Spirit Author:Johnny Hunt