Amy Quote by Elisabeth Elliot

God, he thought, her eyes are so bright, flashing, deep, full of promise, all those things eyes are in books but never are in…

— John Crowley

“One day, riding along, we were talking about Joan's great talents, and he said, 'But, greatest of all her gifts, she has the seeing…

— Mark Twain

“We were convinced that she looked on with indifference if she noticed us at all. Today I know that everything watches, that nothing goes…

— Günter Grass

The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the…

— Umberto Eco

Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding…

— Toni Morrison

“She averted his eyes, but not before he recognized the pain in them, a tormented and languished gaze, a stare preserved for people who…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Generally speaking, "an eye single to the glory of God" means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do,…

— Hartman Rector, Jr

All human eyes have longing in them.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the…

— Sigrid Undset

Has it ever occurred to you that you are seeking God with His eyes?

— Adyashanti

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his…

— Loren Eiseley