Sayings about glass windows

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti. People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows. At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring.

Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.

I'm in the countryside outside of Paris, in a beautiful old manor house. The studio is in the basement, but we decided to set everything up in the old parlor and dining-room area so we can look at each other and at the sunshine coming through the stained-glass windows. It's pretty idyllic, and I think it's spoiling me. I'll have to go back to regular life after this.

Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Keep it sharp on track, nothing but the task in front of you. Work until your eyes are tired and head is heavy, and keep working even after that. Then take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Still beating. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. It is the same with books.

What do we seek through millions of pages? These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author.

When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.

Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 0 Copy.

Pauline R. Kezer 0 Copy. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William Makepeace Thackeray 0 Copy. When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. Tennessee Williams 0 Copy. An empty glass is perceived by the eyes as nothing, in reality, this nothing is something, because it has air.

That something is what we call energy pervading everywhere, for it is the breath of air which brings life into you. Gian Kumar 0 Copy. A woman and a glass are never out of danger. American Proverb 0 Copy. The more women look in their glass the less they look in their house. Handle with care women and glass. The glitter of the sea was like a glass in my eyes.

Steve Erickson 0 Copy. Her long hair was naturally a light brown but the sun had bleached tawny streaks in it, like the stripes of a very old battle flag seen through imperfect glass. Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home. By people, or places. Or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind. I lean forward, mimicking his position. None of the others can even compete.

Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it.

By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you. I could never figure out what it was. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window. Your partner may be trapped in a dark room without windows.

Your life narrative might bring him more relief than an opiate. Some people make better windows than windows.