Quotes about Perception

Is it possible that what we perceive to be relational, emotional, and spiritual problems are actually hearing problems -- ears that have been deafened to the voice of God? And it's that inability to hear His voice that causes us to lose our voice and lose our way.

When we open our spiritual eyes, we start seeing God everywhere we look. We see the image of God in others. We see His fingerprints on His creation. We see God-ordained opportunities all around us all the time.

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. Prayer gives us a God's-eye view. It heightens our awareness and gives us a sixth sense that enables us to perceive spiritual realities that are beyond our five senses.

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but I am getting old, and soon I shall remember only the latter.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.