They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.
I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.