Quotes about Perception

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

Do we mean love, when we say love?

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

There are beauties that are more palpable and explicable, and there are hidden and secret beauties… These hidden beauties are commonly by far the greatest, because the more complex a beauty is, the more hidden it is.

People may love a God of their own imaginations, when they are far from loving such a God as reigns in heaven.

If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.

If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perceive the sweetness of food.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness. . . . So there is a difference between believing that a person is beautiful, and having a sense of his beauty. The former may be obtained by hearsay, but the lat- ter only by seeing the countenance.

What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.