Quotes about Perception
Religion is man's idea of God's expectations.
- Joyce Meyer
And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
- Walt Whitman
Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death.
- Walt Whitman
The world does not need the church to talk about what is already possible. The work of the church is to battle the world's definition of what is believable and unbelievable.
- Walter Brueggemann
Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.
- Walter Brueggemann
paraphrasing 1 Cor. 1:25) that the fictions of God are truer than the facts of men.13
- Walter Brueggemann
The poets speak only poetry, not program, not policy, not even advocacy, only poetry. But the poetry exists in order to make available what the ideologues are unable to see and what the policy makers are unable to grasp.
- Walter Brueggemann
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.2
- Walter Brueggemann
We can recognize, moreover, that a move beyond our tribalism never happens in the ordinary. It takes a miracle, or a jolt, or a gift, or killing (as in Charleston) to awaken us from our tribal numbness, to see and act afresh.
- Walter Brueggemann
The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.
- Walter Brueggemann
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
- Washington Irving
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
- Washington Irving