Quotes about Perception
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
— John Calvin
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
— Graham Greene
You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.
— John Eldredge
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
— Marianne Williamson
Just because there's a silence doesn't mean that nothing is going on.
— Margaret Atwood
Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.
— Charles Swindoll
I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.
— Anonymous
many believers naively assume that real Christianity is alive and well and respected by the majority of our people. Brace yourself. It's an illusion.
— Mark Driscoll
Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
— Job 27:12
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Po jakim? czasie cz?owiek przyzwyczaja si?, zapomina i nawet nie czuje, ?e zimno, bo zapomnia?, co to jest ciep?o.
— William Faulkner
The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.
— Arthur Schopenhauer