Glimpse Quotes - Page 21

• All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.

  John Howe

  Book, Fans, World

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• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life.

  David Rakoff

  Children, Cities, Clouds

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• The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

  Anthony Storr

  Heaven, Spirit, Courageous

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Watch carefully the children around you. In precious moments you will catch a glimpse of your Savior’s face. Listen intently and you will hear his voice. Walk gently among them; his footprints are all around you. Embrace them, for you are embracing him. Respect them, because they are sometimes God’s agents – exactly the kind of instruments he needs. At such times, only a child will do.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Voice, Agents

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.228, WaterBrook

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• The miracles of Jesus are signs of the right order of things. Jesus was not so much turning things upside down as turning them rightside up or, at least, giving his followers glimpses of the rightside up. The miracles of healing, deliverance, provision, and resurrection all reveal that God, through Jesus, is making all things new, that he is restoring what once was unbroken.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Healing, Order

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• The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.

  Richard M. Eyre

  Beautiful, Photography, Magic Moments

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• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Science, Hands, Long

  John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1846). “A Complete Guide to the Lakes: Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, &c., ...”, p.168

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  The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

  Victor Hugo

  Buddhism, Men, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• So there'll be no guiding light for you and me We are not sailors lost out on the sea We were always headed toward eternity Hoping for a glimpse of Galilee

  Emmylou Harris

  Light, Sea, Sailor

  Song: The Pearl

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• In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Distance, Cities, Order

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Learning, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Home, Science, Moon

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.454, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you see that sunset or that panoramic view of God's finest expressed in nature, and the beauty just takes your breath away, remember it is just a glimpse of the real thing that awaits you in heaven.

  Greg Laurie

  Real, Sunset, Views

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• Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

  Will Ferguson

  Happiness, Promise, Beyond The Horizon

  Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”

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• Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is felt even before they open their mouths. Only the person who has also a gift for affection can have a true sense of humor. A good laugh is a sign of love; it may be said to give us a glimpse of, or a first lesson in, the love that God bears for every one of us.

  Karl Rahner

  Giving, Laughing, Mouths

  Karl Rahner (1973). “Belief today: three theological meditations”, Sheed & Ward Ltd

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• In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

  Primo Levi

  Taken, Law, Sometimes

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

  Graham Joyce

  Thinking, Light, Doors

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• All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape whose landmarks constantly draw us toward the past. Certain shifting angles, certain receding perspectives, allow us to glimpse original conceptions of space, but this vision remains fragmentary. It must be sought in the magical locales of fairy tales and surrealist writings: castles, endless walls, little forgotten bars, mammoth caverns, casino mirrors.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Wall, Moving, Writing

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.5, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Dream, Prayer, Mean

  Jean Shinoda Bolen (2007). “Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness As A Soul Journey”, p.227, Conari Press

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• What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.

  Rajneesh

  God, Firsts, Divine

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• That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

  Tariq Ali

  Country, Reality, Political

  Tariq Ali (2011). “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad”, p.13, Verso Books

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• In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Doors, Joy

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.11, Paulist Press

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• In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

  Mark Twain

  Past, Men, Land

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• To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

  James Herbert

  Might

  James Herbert (2011). “Haunted”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

  M. John Harrison

  Perspective, Bullshit, Ordinary

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