Amor dat oculos

Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing.

Jesus: "For those who have eyes to see and ears to hear."

"Love gives eyes to see, and sight inflames the heart."

Francis de Sales, Of the love of God, last line of chapter III, p. 184.

"Oculus" is a regular second-declension noun; "oculos" is the accusative plural form of the word. I habitually misspell this word and put it in the wrong case. One "c", not two; "oculos" not "occulis"! (I'm sure that I am misled by the near homonym, "occult" in English, which is from an entirely different root.

Matthew 13:11-13
Luke 8:9-10
Mark 4:11-12
John 16:12-14

Links

• Peter Kreeft, "Love Sees with New Eyes."