Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
The eye altering, alters all.
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.