Quotes about Perception
Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice.
— Natalie Portman
Is love the sweetness of flowers?
— Helen Keller
We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
— Khalil Gibran
I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.
— Lady Gaga
I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.
— NT Wright
He likes to wear bow ties so we'll all know how intelligent he is. Personally, I've seen Post-it notes with more depth.
— Bill Clinton
In moments when things don't go your way or something isn't said just the way you wish it had been said, the condition of your heart is revealed for all to see.
— Bill Hybels
To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
— Ted Dekker
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.
— Ted Dekker
Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.
— Ted Dekker