Glimpse Quotes - Page 4

• We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

  Max Lucado

  Paper, Soil, Glory

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

  Peter Ustinov

  Conscience

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

  David Rakoff

  Future, Looks, Care

  David Rakoff (2005). “Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems”, p.222, Anchor

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• My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

  Glen Duncan

  Mother, Taken, Forever

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• I'm sure I've lost a few jobs because I'm a Christian. That's irrelevant. I can honestly say that of everything I have, of everything I've experienced, nothing compares to the joy of knowing Christ. Because I've been given a glimpse of Heaven and it outshines all of the rest.

  Kirk Cameron

  Christian, Jobs, Knowing

  "Kirk Cameron's Real Life Growing Pains". Interview with Will Dawson, www.cbn.com.

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• Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

  Robert Bly

  Beauty, Flower, Garden

  Robert Bly (2011). “Kabir: Ecstatic Poems”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our minds. Like it or nor, our human experience of anything or anybody is always incomplete: there is usually something that eludes us, some portion of experience that evades our grasp.

  Karen Armstrong

  Cutting, Elude Us, Mind

  Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.218, Anchor

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• --"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Justice, Parables

  "Gilead". Book by Marilynne Robinson, books.google.ru. May 7, 2009.

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• The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sweet, Light, Dawn

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every window.

  Pablo Neruda

  Forgotten, Window, Seems

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• Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Giving, Heaven

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• My work is a fusion of personal experiences and influences - moody atmospheres, victorian-inspired couture, and timeless elements all laced with clandestine symbolism. The figures I paint exist in their own esoteric realm and time, and each painting offers a glimpse into their anomalous world.

  Lori Earley

  Symbolism, Atmosphere, Fusion

  Artist Statement, www.loriearley.com.

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• Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True Self.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Sweet, Self

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 21, 2014

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• Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of traveling carnivals, roadside attractions, and a beloved, eccentric father’s descent into Alzheimers. Just as her dad animated the handcarved, miniature western world of Tinkertown from coat hangers, inner tubes and old sewing machine motors, Tanya Ward Goodman has fashioned her complex and often hilarious memories into a beguiling, wry, and moving work of art.

  Michelle Huneven

  Art, Dad, Memories

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• The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

  Rajneesh

  Single Mom, Talking, Meditation

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• Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

  Phil Cousineau

  Meaningful, Destiny, Soul

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• The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Fog, Meditation

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.87, Harmony

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• Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

  Lucy Larcom

  True Friend, Very True, True Friend Is

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “As it is in Heaven”

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• Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Lying, Giving

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• I am what I am, and what I am is always due to him; whatever in me or in my words is good and true and eternal came to me from his mouth, his heart, his soul. Sri Ramakrishna is the spring of this phase of the earth's religious life, of its impulses and activities. If I can show the world one glimpse of my Master, I shall not have lived in vain.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Spring, Heart

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• Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,
  and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock
  like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it
  and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint
  or a pile of rubble.

  Lucia Perillo

  Italian, Rocks, Names

  Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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