I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
The kinds of mystical experiences that I have had definitely convinced me that I was able to get out of time. I have had experiences, or brief glimpses, of being able to see the future and then come back into time, and then go into extraordinary realms of the past.
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.
God never intended us to want anything more than we want Him. Just the slightest glimpse into His Word proves that, Look at what the Bible says about God's chosen people, the Israelites, when they wanted food more than they wanted God: 'They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved' (Psalm 78:18). Yikes
Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.
To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.
Content is a glimpse.
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.
She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.
The best that can happen is that someone can catch a glimpse of the glory you're hinting at.
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.
Celebration. . . is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.