Quotes about Perception

If you accept what people call you, you will start to believe it. Find your identity in Christ, not in what others say.

Remember that we cannot judge the moral value of any action by how we feel. Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give.

Our minds may be like some computers that can have a lifetime of wrong information stored in them.

It is so wonderful and comforting to know that when everyone else only sees our faults, God still sees our possibilities.

Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he.

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes that we have.

We become addicted to approval when we base our self-worth on how people treat us or on what we believe they think about us.

Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. —HEBREWS 11:1 You can close your eyes and see a disaster or you can choose to see victory.

I looked at that woman and thought, This poor lady thinks she is hearing from God. "But how do you know she wasn't?" you may ask. I know because if God had wanted to correct me about my clothes, He would have done it through my husband, one of my children or one of the leaders in my ministry. He would have chosen someone I knew and whose opinion I respected, not someone I had never met or even heard of before. It

Encouraging someone and speaking truth into someone's life when God asks you to do so are healthy and wonderful things—but it's never right to make a quick, dismissive judgment. Our judgments based on external appearances don't have all the information and wisdom that