Quotes about Perception

Religion is not primarily a set of beliefs, a collection of prayers, or a series of rituals. Religion is first and foremost a way of seeing. It can't change the facts about the world we live in, but it can change the way we see those facts, and that in itself can often make a real difference.

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

The 'C' students run the world.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be noticed for their vices than not be noticed at all.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

What exactly do you mean by the human intellect?

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things exactly the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

Ya hurt, Joshsh?" I thought that was quite apparent, but for someone like Sam who spent a good deal of his time on the ground, perhaps it was a reasonable question.

This is true of all of us. It is a huge change, from unbelief to knowing God's presence, from perception of only what we can see, hear, and feel to a new realm, the spiritual world. We enter into this like infants.