Quotes about Perception

Faith isn't blind, it's visionary

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

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.