Quotes about Perception

Faith is like a radar that sees through the fog.

To Tanta Yanns the clothes in fashion when she was young represented God's final say on human apparel. All change since then came from the style book of the devil.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

He hung naked on the cross. I had not known—I had not thought. . . . The paintings, the carved crucifixes showed at the least a scrap of cloth. But this, I suddenly knew, was the respect and reverence of the artist. But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence. No more than I saw in the faces around us now.

and uncared for. Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing:

If someone has been trying to show you something about yourself and you continue to fight it, maybe it's time to acknowledge that you might be deceived.

From the outside, everything looked good. But God doesn't look at the outside.

We compare our behind-the-scenes with other people's highlight reels.

A lie believed as truth will affect you as if it were true.

The life we have is a reflection of what we think.

You are who God says you are, not who people say you are. Don't try to base your life on the unstable foundation of human opinions, but instead, build on the unshakable truth of God.