Quotes about Perception

Influence requires more intuition than intellect.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good, but that I heard never.

There is an old saying: 'Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him.' But give him a good name — and see what happens!

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Why is it, comedian Lily Tomlin asks, "that when we speak to God we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?" Such a response from ourselves or others to someone's claim to have heard from God is especially likely today because of the lack of specific teaching and pastoral guidance on such matters.

We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.

The ultimate freedom we have as individuals is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon and think about. By think we mean all the ways in which we are aware of things, including our memories, perceptions, and beliefs. The focus of your thoughts significantly affects everything else that happens in your life and evokes the feelings that frame your world and motivate your actions.

The intellect is good. Our natural abilities of perception are good, and they are not opposed to faith. Please hear me: our natural abilities are not opposed to faith. Yes, we live by faith and not by sight, but try not using your sight at all and see how that works. When Jesus walked this earth, he used all of his human powers—all of them—and we are called to devote all of our human powers to God in order that we might live under him as he intended.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Faith has two main parts: one is vision and one is desire, or will. Vision is seeing reality as it is, or in the case of the future, as it could be for us. Desire is wanting reality to be as it is, or as we hope it could be.