Quotes about Perception
Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.
— AW Tozer
When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.
— Zig Ziglar
The world hates Christian people if they can see God in them.
— G Campbell Morgan
What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?
— CS Lewis
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!
— AW Tozer
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
— Oswald Chambers
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
— Oswald Chambers
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
— St. Augustine
God will never violate His Word, but He doesn't seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.
— Bill Johnson
God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.
— John Ortberg
The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.
— Eugene Peterson
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.
— Max Lucado