Quotes About The Unseen

#1. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

Brandon Boyd

#2. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.

C.A. Woolf

#3. Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#4. And Unseen University took tradition very seriously, at least when it remembered to.

Terry Pratchett

#5. The best servant does his work unseen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#6. Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#7. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#8. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.

Daphne Du Maurier

#9. The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you'll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price

Michael Bassey Johnson

#10. In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!

Erica Jong

#11. In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.

Rhonda Byrne

#12. Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that can never exist.

Carl Henegan

#13. To see the unseen, you must see through the beauty of love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. How simple and natural were her words, and how likely that she was simply sleepy! She felt herself clad in an impenetrable armor of falsehood. She felt that some unseen force had come to her aid and was supporting her.

Leo Tolstoy

#15. I believe that much unseen is also here.

Walt Whitman

#16. Blake's song isn't really a song for England alone," said Dym. "It's a song for every land. We're all building the unseen Jerusalem together. But the powers of darkness don't want to see a time when the earth shall be filled with the glory of the God as the waters cover the sea.

Constance Savery

#17. Behind Ise Shrine, unseen, hidden by the fence, Buddha sees nirvana.

Gary Gauthier

#18. There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind's home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you're so desperate to be rid of them that you'll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.

Kevin Hearne

#19. The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

Frances J Roberts

#20. The heavens and the earth are around us that it may be possible for us to speak of the unseen by the seen, for the outermost husk of creation has correspondence with the deepest things of the Creator.
He is not a God that hides himself, but a God who made all that he might reveal himself.

George MacDonald

#21. Each tree hears signals from an unseen internal time system ... perhaps even from the stars ... Then the tree renews its conquest of the air every spring.

Ned Hayes

#22. Faith and trust come from an inner ability to believe in something unseen, to expect it to be there without ever having proof that it is.

Tara Taylor Quinn

#23. The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

William Butler Yeats

#24. We are all linked by a fabric of unseen connections. This fabric is constantly changing and evolving. This field is directly structured and influenced by our behavior and by our understanding.

David Bohm

#25. The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#26. The great unseen reality is God

A.W. Tozer

#27. To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

Marianne Williamson

#28. I would have looked away, should have, but I had never seen a green one. A weaker man might have plucked out his own eyes, but being a philosopher, I knew the sight could never be unseen, so I persevered.

Christopher Moore

#29. She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

Martial

#30. Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Dorothea Brande

#31. (T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.

Stephanie Kallos

#32. Our duty is wakefulness, the fundamental condition of life itself. The unseen, the unheard, the untouchable is what weaves the fabric of our see-able universe together.

Robin Craig Clark

#33. The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

Freya Stark

#34. I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

Paul Robeson

#35. Some important decisions were made on a battlefield or in a conference room. But others happened quietly, unseen by others. That didn't make the decision any less important to Sazed. He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

Brandon Sanderson

#36. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

Ted Koppel

#37. Mushrooms were the roses in the garden of that unseen world, because

Margaret Atwood

#38. A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop

Fumiko Enchi

#39. We look for wonders and the unseen reality-the hand of God- in things extrordinary, when more often his presence is to be found in the unheralded, familiar, everyday events of which life is woven.

David G. Myers

#40. He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

Thomas Carlyle

#41. Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to come, their blossom unseen by human eyes, the walls will crumble, the trees die and rot, the gardens revert to weeds and grass, because all beauty will outlive the human intelligence which records, enjoys and celebrates it.

P.D. James

#42. Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

N.K. Jemisin

#43. If there are two takeaways from this book, we hope they are: Work unseen is work uncontrolled and We can't (and shouldn't!) do more work than we can handle.

Jim Benson

#44. Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend ... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

Ian McKellen

#45. The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

Khalil Gibran

#46. Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube ... the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes ...

Wassily Kandinsky

#47. If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

Walter Isaacson

#48. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

Janny Wurts

#49. Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist ... why would you want to?

Dave Sim

#50. There is more to see than we have been permitted; there are heavens unseen behind the heavens of our perception.

Patricia Storace

#51. maybe one of the reasons i don't express myself as well as i want to is because inside, shoved way down into an unseen pit, i'm not sure of what i want.

Emily Franklin

#52. To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

Starhawk

#53. We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.

John O'Donohue

#54. Time slowly begins to move. Even as we begin to awaken to mundane daily life ... I don't want us to forget ... the sadness of living on the backs of unseen sacrifices.

Kaori Yuki

#55. The new ground that you form in your living is a new self, a new self that isn't at all of the middle ground, a lived-in self that has no need of middle ground. That new self makes unseen reality within seen.

John De Ruiter

#56. He had the philosopher's disease of seeing so far ahead that all the little pleasant shapes and colors of existence passed under his nose unseen.

Will Durant

#57. ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

From the poem 'The Unseen World

Munia Khan

#58. In the gaunt, brown face in the mirror - unseen since late September - the blue eyes in a monkish skull seem eerily clear, but this is the face of a man I do not know.

Peter Matthiessen

#59. The man smiled. "Harry is unique, for he was born with a special gift of sight, with eyes able to see things that are unseen. He has talents to move matter by the sound of his voice.

Mark Andrew Poe

#60. The world was constructed in the mind's eye, out of things unseen by the mortal eye, and made alive by faith.

Neville Goddard

#61. Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen

Mike Dooley

#62. The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

Rumi

#63. If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.

June Matthews

#64. One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Martin Amis

#65. There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.

Lesley Garrett

#66. What is so exquisite is that not a word has been said by me or by her, but we understand each other so well in this unseen language of looks and tones that this evening more clearly than ever she told me she loves me.

Leo Tolstoy

#67. Faith sees the unseen things and makes them real.

F. E. Marsh

#68. My contention is that, if our theology really derives from the biblical text, we must reconsider our selective supernaturalism and recover a biblical theology of the unseen world

Michael S. Heiser

#69. All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

Boyle Roche

#70. It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

Francois Jacob

#71. Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

George Carlin

#72. Eternity can be found in the minuscule, in the place where earthworms, along with billions of unseen soil-dwelling microorganisms, engage in a complex and little-understood dance with the tangle of plant roots that make up their gardens, their cities.

Amy Stewart

#73. Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

Mary Gaitskill

#74. The truth above all truths is an unseen spiritual war.

Daniel Marques

#75. There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Wayne Dyer

#76. There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Kahlil Gibran

#77. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost

Lisa Unger

#78. Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,

Tony Dovale

#79. Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

Abraham Cowley

#80. Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Ada Lovelace

#81. Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.

William Hazlitt

#82. what I feel is that spending my life trying to earn the favor of an unseen, unknown, and unknowable being who watches me from the sky is an exercise in sheer futility.

Brandon Sanderson

#83. My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Luke Goss

#84. In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.

William James

#85. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge

#86. I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

Khalil Gibran

#87. Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit.

Ann Voskamp

#88. I am he that walks unseen.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#89. Many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Jane Austen

#90. I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.

Ezra Taft Benson

#91. I believe there is an unseen world all around us.

Stephen King

#92. If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.

Grant Petersen

#93. to live well you must live
unseen

Rene Descartes

#94. Words can crush things that are unseen.

Jewel

#95. Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

George Downame

#96. Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

Hamza Yusuf

#97. What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Stanley Donen

#98. The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height.

Kim Harrison

#99. The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#100. Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.

Annie Besant