Quotes about Perception
The conduct of some professed Christians is so lacking in kindness and courtesy that their good is evil spoken of.
— Ellen White
The commendation of apparent friends is more dangerous than reproach.
— Ellen White
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
— Ellen Glasgow
Our beliefs about the sources of joy are frequently experienced as colored imaginations that captivate our hearts.
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Ask anyone what she means when she says 'God' and chances are that you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Christians are not particularly gifted at knowing how we sound to others, especially in parts of the world where our voices are the loudest and most numerous.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
here is the testimony of faith: darkness is not dark to God; the night is as bright as the day.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.
— Barbara Brown Taylor