Quotes about Perception

Spirit means essentially two things: 1. The power of thinking—conscious, deliberate, rational understanding. Not sense perception; that's the work of a bodily organ, like the eye. 2. The power of willing and choosing and deliberately loving. Not sensory appetite; that's the work of a bodily function, like hunger.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

We do not see into the world in which God lives, but He definitely sees into ours.

A critical person seldom recognizes his own shortcomings, only those of others (Matthew 7:3).

It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since".

He said the best contract lawyers were the ones who heard the unspoken. The hopes and dreams and fears that both sides held, sometimes so tightly they didn't even know it themselves. A good contract attorney has to be a mediator first and foremost. And the best mediator is someone who can translate conflicting emotions into some form of harmony. But to do that, they have to look beneath the surface. See the unseen. Hear the unspoken.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

Margaret is the most beautiful woman I've laid eyes on. The men in this county must be crazy not to see that.

There is more to a soul than what others see

There is never any certainty of the unseen. We hope. That's what we do as Christians, and that's what I do with unicorns. Maybe like C. S. Lewis's jewel, that glimpse of a unicorn I sometimes see is a glimpse of Jesus.