Quotes about Perception
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, by attributing overmuch to things less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
— John Milton
Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.
— John Milton
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
— John Milton
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.
— John Milton
Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.
— John Newton
One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.
— John Ortberg
But to grow spiritually means to live increasingly as Jesus would in our unique place—to perceive what Jesus would perceive if he looked through our eyes, to think what he would think, to feel what he would feel, and therefore to do what he would do.
— John Ortberg
It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.
— John Piper
Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.
— John Piper
for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.
— John Piper
It is possible to experience true divine wonders in your conversion but never to be taught a true description of what your experience is. Then someone starts to describe your experience in words you have never heard, and in ways you have never understood, and suddenly the strange words all sound exactly right.
— John Piper
The average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but the average mind can understand about 350 words per minute—that is a 200-word per minute boredom factor.
— John Piper