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Letter "V" » visions
«For visions come not to polluted eyes.»
Author: Mary Howitt
| Keywords:
visions
«Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together. If the city was unhappy with itself yesterday-and invariably it was-it will reinvent itself today.»
Author: Pat Colander
| Keywords:
contradictions, haphazardly, invariably, linked, reinvent, reinventing, visions
«Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.»
«In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.»
«In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.»
«It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.»
«In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, / Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.»
«It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Materialism
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get into, hallucination, hallucinations, idealism, Pastor, pastors, visions
«In the third stage of adult-hood, intelligent attention has to be paid not only to one's own advancement and the advancement of the family and society but also to the advancement of the people generally. That too is the responsibility of the grown-ups and they must acquire the skills necessary. They must have wider visions of the peace and prosperity of all mankind, and try to contribute to both, within the limits of their capacity and resources.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
advancement, contribute, hood, visions, wider
«I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
agreed, depths, evocation, Philosophy of, The Practice, visions
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