Quotes about Perception
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
— Albert Einstein
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
— Bede Griffiths
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man's religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.
— Adrian Rogers
It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
— CS Lewis
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
— David Starr Jordan
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.
— Charles Colson
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
— Thomas Jefferson
Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
— Anonymous
Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
— Oscar Wilde
Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?
— Elbert Hubbard