Quotes about Invisible

Prayer is the one hand with which we grasp the invisible; fasting, the other, with which we let loose and cast away the visible.

The second-century Letter to Diognetus put it beautifully: "As the soul is in the body, so Christians are in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world…. The invisible soul is guarded by the visible body, and Christians are known indeed to be in the world, but their godliness remains invisible.

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

God seems to have chosen to manifest the invisible in what we call the "visible," so that all things visible are the revelation of God's endlessly diffusive spiritual energy. Once a person recognizes that, it is hard to ever be lonely in this world again.

God has worked anonymously since the very beginning—it has always been an inside and secret sort of job. The Spirit seems to work best underground. When aboveground, humans start fighting about it.

It is a merciful Father who strips us when we need to be stripped, as the tree needs to be stripped of its blossoms. He is not finished with us yet, whatever the loss we suffer, for as we loose our hold on visible things, the invisible become more precious—where our treasure is, there will our hearts be.

God is in the business of making us walking, breathing examples of the invisible reality of the presence of Christ in us.

An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.