Quotes about Perception
[Philosophers] are like a traveler passing through a field at night who in a momentary lightning flash sees far and wide, but the sight vanishes so swiftly that he is plunged again into the darkness of night before he can take even a step-let alone be directed on the way by its help.
— John Calvin
For we see Abraham the readier to acknowledge himself but dust and ashes the nearer he approaches to behold the glory of the Lord.
— John Calvin
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.
— John Calvin
Whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds.
— John Calvin
Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No
— John Calvin
Men will not turn to Christ for light until they know this world as darkness and themselves so profoundly blind.
— John Calvin
Antiochus shall act prosperously according to his mental perception, and shall be so assisted by' his craftiness, as to obtain whatever he shall grasp at.
— John Calvin
And here again we ought to observe that we are called to a knowledge of God: not that knowledge which, content with empty speculation, merely flits in the brain, but that which will be sound and fruitful if we duly perceive it, and if it takes root in the heart. For the Lord manifests himself by his powers, the force of which we feel within ourselves and the benefits of which we enjoy.
— John Calvin
Those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.
— John Calvin
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
— John Calvin
Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.
— John Donne
And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.
— John Donne