Quotes about Perception

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.

What you receive is directly connected to what you believe

I am not who people say I am. I am who God says I am.

Too many people drag through the day with long faces. Some don't smile for months. Then they'll come up with those same sour faces after a service and say to me, "I've got the joy of the Lord." I'll think: You should notify your face!

If you listen carefully, you'll hear another voice—the voice of faith.

As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." ISAIAH 55:9

The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 SAMUEL 16:7

What they say about you does not define who you are. Their opinion of you does not determine your self-worth.

Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember? MARK 8:18 HOW'S YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION this morning? Are you focusing on your problems, on what you can't do, on what you can't have? The barrier is in your mind. It's not God's lack of resources or your lack of talent that holds you back. It's simply because you are focused on the wrong things.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.