Quotes about Perception

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

God created man, and man returned the favor.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.