Quotes about Perception

What grabs us is the shocking disproportion between what we perceive to be the sin (anger) and its consequences (eternal punishment). In the words of R. T. France, "ordinary insults may betray an attitude of contempt which God takes extremely seriously.

Some people read the Bible as if its passages were Rorschach inkblots. They see what is in their head. In more sophisticated language, they project onto the Bible what they want to see.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

Space is a way of measuring time; time is a way of measuring space.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.