Quotes about Perception

Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

When you judge another person you do not define them. You merely define yourself as someone who needs to judge.

We may assume that we are in control of our responses to the world, but that's far from the case. If two people can see the same thing and have opposite reactions, their responses are controlling them, not the other way around.

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.

Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.

That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.