Quotes about Perception

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.

Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence, and judge the prize.

What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part do thou but thine, and be not diffident of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, by attributing overmuch to things less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven.

Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

But to grow spiritually means to live increasingly as Jesus would in our unique place—to perceive what Jesus would perceive if he looked through our eyes, to think what he would think, to feel what he would feel, and therefore to do what he would do.