Eyes Wide Open Quotes

“Sin is man looking for love in all the wrong places. Reflections of God in creation create wonder, but not the satisfaction we really want.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“The experience of beauty does something profound and powerful within the heart and soul of every human being. Beauty creates wonder in us.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“God's beauty is the bouquet of His perfections in his person, unveiled in His purposes, and displayed in His Glory”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“There are but two lessons for the Christian to learn: the one is to enjoy God in every thing; the other is to enjoy every thing in God.2 – Charles Simeon (1759-1836)”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Strawberry pie and other delicacies are eaten around the world every day. Yet if I simply eat and enjoy them for their own sake without thought of God as the creator and giver of the pleasure, then I am eating strawberry pie like an atheist.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open

“: What am I loving when I love you? Not bodily beauty nor the gracefulness of age; nor light’s brightness, so dear to the eyes of mine; not the sweet melodies of song, nor the fragrance of flowers, or perfumes, of aromas; not manna nor honey; not the body so dear to the embraces of the flesh: no, these are not the things I love when I love my God. And yet in a certain sense I do love light and sound, smell, food, and embrace of my inner being. There, a light shines for my soul untrammeled by space; there, I hear a sound that does not disappear into time; there, I smell a perfume that the wind does not carry off; there, I savor things that no gluttony makes sickly; there I experience an embrace never to be broken by [excess]. All this I love when I love my God. So then I asked the earth, “What is all this?” and it replied: “It is not me.” And all the things on earth gave me the same answer. I quizzed the sea and its depths, the living things that move there, and they replied: “We are not your God, seek higher.” . . . And then I said to all those things seated before the door of my senses, “If it is not you, tell me something about my God, speak to me of him.” And with a mighty voice all cried: “He is our creator.” I looked at the creatures, and asked; their beauty was their answer.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Created beauty eclipses God’s beauty in the desire factory of man’s heart. It is a case of mistaken identity. Every”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing . . . to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Wonder at reality demands the humility to sit at the foot of a dandelion. The proud are so full of themselves that there is little room to marvel at anything else. – Thomas Dubay”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“The cross is love’s highest human expression and beauty’s ultimate source. Before a sunset or a mountain range or a painting or a song can be relished as beautiful, our souls have to awaken to true beauty. The cross is real beauty. Everything else is reflection.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“A yardstick provides us with a simple illustration. A yardstick measures a yard and is itself a yard. God’s beauty is like that. He is beauty, and He is the measure of all beauty.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Each election cycle creates fervor over the next perceived messianic politician. Mankind intuitively places their hopes and allegiance in a perceived great one. We want someone we can look up to, believe in, and identify with. Image-bearers need a hero. More specifically, fallen humanity needs a Savior. All the beauty longings of our heart scream for just one beauty that restores, fulfills, and endures.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Creation is beautiful precisely because its Creator is beautiful. God defines beauty by His very essence. He is the source and standard of all beauty.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Beauty’s gift is wonder, and wonder’s desire is expression and possession.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open: Enjoying God in Everything

“Every created beauty was created by God to lead our affections to Him. That’s why He made the pleasures of earthly beauty so fleeting—so that on the other side of the pleasure we might experience either wonder and worship and ultimate satisfaction in God or the pursuit of the pleasure that beauty provides for its own sake. If we choose the latter, we will only be disappointed again.”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open

“You may want that car, spouse, vacation, house, body, toy, meal, or position. But could it be that what you really want is God?”
― Steve DeWitt, Eyes Wide Open