See and See But Do Not Perceive
Well, see and see but do not perceive, hear and hear but do not understand, as the Lord says. I can’t claim to understand that saying, as many times as I’ve heard it, and even preached on it. It simply states a deeply mysterious fact. You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead – A Novel (2004, pg. 7)
This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 1:55pm. It has been filed under Media, Books, Quotes, News, Thoughts, Personal, Spiritual, Writers, Joshua.
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Okay. So only one person has cared enough to leave their two cents. How depressing! Especially considering all the trouble I went through posting this in the first place. Well you can leave a comment if you want. It might cheer me up.
It gives me the feeling that no matter how many times I have seen something, I have never took the time to really pay attention to it. Is like when man or girl feels like their partner is cheating they see and see the different new behaviors of their partner but they never take the time to understand the reason for this new attitude there for they do not really see that their partner is cheating, or they prefer not to see
Byron wrote on Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 6:52pm.