Quotes about Perception
Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.
— Beth Moore
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
— Harold S. Kushner
We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
— AW Tozer
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
— Oscar Wilde
When we can see the image of God where we don't want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.
— John Calvin
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
— St. Jerome
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
— St. Augustine
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
— Thomas Merton
God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.
— Charles Swindoll
Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind. I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.
— Billy Graham