Quotes about Perception
Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
— Lynn Austin
When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
— Lynn Austin
Everyone had forgotten her. But that's the way Penny was-- so quiet and unimportant that you could look right at her and never see her. Esther had no idea why Penny always showed up at Grandma's house on Sunday afternoons when they came to visit. She was just one of those nosy neighbors with no life of her own, who watched other people's lives as if watching a movie.
— Lynn Austin
Guard your heart, son," Eli said in a hushed voice. "That's what God looks at—your heart. Most folks look at the outside things, like the color of your skin. But God looks at your heart.
— Lynn Austin
We cannot know all of the things that are going on behind the scenes that we see in the photographs. They do not show us how Hashem is at work.
— Lynn Austin
Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.
— Lynn Austin
People aren't thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.
— Lysa TerKeurst
We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.
— Lysa TerKeurst
How a woman thinks is often how she lives.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation
— Lysa TerKeurst
Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We
— Lysa TerKeurst