"Christianity is, above all, a way of
seeing. Everything else in Christian life flows from and circles around the transformation of vision. Christians
see differently, and that is why their prayer, their worship, their action, their whole way of being in the world have a distinctive accent and flavor. What unites figures as diverse as James Joyce, Caravaggio, John Milton, the architect of Chartres, Dorothy Day, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the later Bob Dylan is a peculiar and distinctive
take on things, a style, a way, which flow finally from Jesus of Nazareth. Origen of Alexandria once remarked that holiness is seeing with the eyes of Christ, Tielhard de Chardin said, with great passion, that his mission as a Christian thinker was to help people see, and Thomas Aquinas said that the ultimate goal of the Christian life is a "beatific vision," an act of
seeing." -- Robert Barron