Quotes about Perception

We can't change—or better said, invite God to change us—when we are unaware and do not see the truth.

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

A child doesn't say, "What's wrong with this environment where I am growing up?" They think, What's wrong with me?

What we think has a strong influence on what we feel. John

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.

Truth is always strong, no matter how weak it looks, and falsehood is always weak, no matter how strong it looks.

Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'

You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?