Quotes about Perception

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.

a person could walk around in a prison of his or her own making and never be behind bars.

What you choose to think about yourself and about your life becomes true for you.

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

We fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen" (2 Corinthians 4:18 TEV). That which is unseen is the Word of God. His Word is just and accurate.

Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, and am acquainted with Him (Jesus Christ)] but fails to keep and obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth [of the Gospel] is not in him. But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected … (1 John 2:4—5 AMP)

is good enough? In these times the terms good and God are seemingly synonymous. We believe that what is generally accepted as good must be aligned with God's will. Generosity, humility, and justice are good. Selfishness, arrogance, and cruelty are evil. The distinction seems pretty straightforward. But is that all there is to it? If good is so obvious, why does Hebrews 5:14 teach that we must have discernment to recognize it?