Quotes about Perception
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.
- Malcolm X
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
- Philip Yancey
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
- Brother Lawrence
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
- Richard Sibbes
Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?
- Henry Blackaby
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.
- Mark Driscoll
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.
- Oswald Chambers
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.
- Louise Hay
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
- Bruce Lee
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
- William Osler
In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.
- William Temple