Quotes about Perception

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on — appreciate your wife!

Overcome as much as you can—nay even more than you can—the sensitiveness of your mind and check the copious flow of your tears. Else your deep affection for your nephew may be construed by unbelievers as indicating despair of God. You must regretim not as dead but as absent. You must seem to be looking for him rather than have lost him.

if things which are good in themselves as being the handiwork of a good Creator are called vanity, it is because they are compared with things which are better still. For example, compared with a lamp, a lantern is good for nothing; compared with a star, a lamp does not shine at all; the brightest star pales before the moon; put the moon beside the sun, and it no longer looks bright; compare the sun with Christ, and it is darkness. " I am that I am, " God says; [ Exodus 3: 14 ]

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

We tend to think of God as being like us.

This Iranian brother had a correct perception of the sovereignty of God in the decrees and decisions of governments.

The fact is we do not know what God is doing through a particular set of circumstances or events.

We must see our circumstances through God's love instead of, as we are prone to do, seeing God's love through our circumstances.

But the politically-incorrect truth is that racism today is a state of mind, more than a social reality.