Needle Eye Quotes

#1. Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

George Zebrowski

#2. Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

A.A. Gill

#3. We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

Terence McKenna

#4. The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Rumi

#5. Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

Caitlin Thomas

#6. Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.

W.B.Yeats

#7. When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.

Chogyam Trungpa

#8. I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

Willard Wigan

#9. It's said that the Buddha's enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

Matthieu Ricard

#10. No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#11. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Ilona Andrews

#12. It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.

Hugh Laurie

#13. Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Adolf Hitler

#14. There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.

Adolf Hitler

#15. We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves So infinitesimally scaled We could stream through the eye of a needle.

Seamus Heaney

#16. The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.

Cornell Woolrich

#17. Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

Charles Dickens

#18. ...Thought lengths it, pulls
an invisible world through
a needle's eye
one detail at a time,

...

Jennifer Grotz

#19. Ever since Constantine made Christianity the official "imperial faith, " Christians have been trying to push the camel of power and wealth through the slender needle's eye of the vision of Jesus.

Kurt Neilson

#20. In the borough, three boys circled a white camel
that wept because at dawn
there was no other way except through the needle's eye!
Oh cross! Oh, nails! Oh, thorn!
Oh, thorn driven to the bone until the planet rust to pieces!

Federico Garcia Lorca

#21. The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

Maria Mitchell

#22. All things (e.g. a camel's journey through
A needle's eye) are possible, it's true.
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
In one long bloody thread, from tail to snout.

C.S. Lewis

#23. It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

Mark Twain

#24. It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.

Kwame Nkrumah

#25. The pieces of my broken heart are so small that
they could be passed through the eye of a needle.

Brian Helgeland

#26. I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

Michael Moore

#27. I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus Christ

#28. It doesn't escape him that the rock holding it up is the perfect fit for his fist. Or how easily one of those needle spokes would slide right through the girl's eye like Jell-O.

Lauren Beukes

#29. Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Michael Ondaatje

#30. They might as well have been trying to fit a squirrel through the eye of a needle.

Embee

#31. The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

William Butler Yeats

#32. God had pulled her through a needle's eye so narrow that this thread in front of them was all that remained.

Anthony Marra

#33. Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

Jacques Barzun

#34. All the stream that's roaring by
Came out of a needle's eye ...

William Butler Yeats

#35. It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

Vera Nazarian

#36. I guess like my good buddy Jesus said "it really is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle dude, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, so go for it, YOLO.

Cristian Matheson

#37. My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.

Anonymous

#38. And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

Douglas Wilson

#39. How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.

Anonymous

#40. Again I tell you it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Anonymous

#41. The wealthy, Jesus says, can only get into heaven through the eye of a needle; the same applies to churches wealthy in numbers and programs.

Mark Galli