I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
The work of the Spirit is the bringing to be of the vision of God. . . . the capacitating of persons to 'see visions' and 'dream dreams'. . . . . The birth of the Church is the beginning of the End. . . . . . The Kingdom of God as the miracle of ocular newness when 'the blind see' makes its impact on history in the creation of a visionary community. [[The tongues were]] the language of the world to come. . . Therefore in this birth of the Church, the risen and ascended Lord takes to himself a Body on earth with eyes opened by the Spirit to see the future.
Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?
Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to. . . . transform their pain into healings;. . . transform their tears to laughter:. . . transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads.
Truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror, Visions of yourself and error could never be clearer. The truth is that you ugly. . . Not on the outside, but in the inside; On the outside, you frontin' you lovely.
Young men have visions, old men have dreams.
Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life. . . but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.