Quotes about Perception
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
— Toni Morrison
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death.
— John Milton
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
— Philip Yancey
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
— Philip Yancey
If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.
— Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the geiser going off. After all, they see it so often.
— Philip Yancey
Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The
— Philip Yancey
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
— Philip Yancey
God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.
— Philip Yancey
My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.
— Philip Yancey
Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.
— Philip Yancey