Quotes about Perception

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.

But it is better to enter into life maimed and lovely in God's sight than to be lovely in man's sight and lame in God's.

You cannot bring your friend to the point of seeing; God must do it. Have you seen Jesus? If so, you will want others to see Him too. "And they went and told it to the rest, but they did not believe them either" (Mark 16:13). When you see Him, you must tell, even if they don't believe.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

When we discern that other people are not growing spiritually and allow that discernment to turn to criticism, we block our fellowship with God. God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

If we have only what we have experienced, we have nothing. But if we have the inspiration of the vision of God, we have more than we can experience.

Have you ever heard the Master say something very difficult to you? If you haven't, I question whether you have ever heard Him say anything at all. Jesus says a tremendous amount to us that we listen to, but do not actually hear.

To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps; the ocean has a shore.

Tis because I am ordinary, / Thy ways so often look ordinary to me. It is through the discipline of obedience that I get to the place where Abraham was and I see who God is.