God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger - according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.
Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God.
If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.
You I expected better of. " He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much. " -Acheron
It is important that we have the inner richness to be able to look up at the stars or the moon and compose a poem once in a while. When we open wide our minds and fix our gaze on the universe, we fix our gaze on our own life.
Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.
"Amy," Elsie Moore said in her crackling voice, her gaze fixed on Declan. "I want you to get me a new bear. A blond one. "
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.
I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you. " His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.
I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.
I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.
because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well.
The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.
