Quotes about Perception

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

You become what you think, not what others think of you.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

The great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that the latter acknowledges God, under whatever low and poor and human appearances He manifests Himself.

Just think of the Christians around you. I do not speak of nominal Christians, or of professing Christians, but I speak of hundreds and thousands of honest, earnest Christians who are not living a life in the power of God or to His glory. So little power, so little devotion or consecration to God, so little perception of the truth that a Christian is a man utterly surrendered to God's will!

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.