Through A Glass Darkly Quotes

#1. There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections

Douglas Sirk

#2. You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

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Stephen King

#4. As it says in the Bible, For now we through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.
If it is face to face, there must be two looking.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).

Stephen Jay Gould

#6. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Anonymous

#7. L.P. So your work must fight religion?
J.H. No, not at all! It fights the unconsciousness, the blindness, that all myth creates about itself. You never can see the actual myth you are in or only through a glass darkly.

James Hillman

#8. We should not expect too much from faith," he said. "Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly.

Margaret Atwood

#9. In Heaven we'll understand why we've suffered on Earth. The Apostle Paul explained, For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face to face. Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known [of God] .

David Berg

#10. Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

William Mountford

#11. Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Margaret Atwood

#13. Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit. Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

Donald Allen Kirch

#14. Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.

Gene Weingarten

#15. I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Medea Benjamin

#16. One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Pindar

#17. So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many guises, - Many names, but always me.

George S. Patton

#18. How she wanted to put away adult things and go back to seeing through a looking-glass, darkly.

Gregory Maguire

#19. Don't you love it when the ending makes you smile?

Julie Richards

#20. Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.

John Kremer

#21. It's so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

Ingmar Bergman

#22. As a child, I was always intrigued by the question: what is it that distinguishes a city from a town? Is it size? Population? Location? When I asked grown-ups, the confident answer was that a city has to have a cathedral - which, to a child raised in a devout Catholic setting, made sense.

John Burnside

#23. The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

George Arnold

#24. But I was caught in an hourglass of colliding dreams.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#25. No one liked Howard.

Michael Grant

#26. The one thing that fascinated me the most was how a simple hairdo could make people confess their darkest secrets.

Judy DeLuca

#27. (As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Jostein Gaarder

#28. Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Pearl S. Buck