Quotes about Perception

When you twist the cross, you get a swastika.

But if you ask the average person how Christians live, they are struck silent.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."