Quotes About Perception

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.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

You are beautiful, brilliant, perceptive and pure beyond compare. Your folly lies in being unaware of your inner power and living a mediocre existence.

What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

Women don't have halos built in.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

When I'm not in a relationship, I shave one leg. That way, when I sleep, it feels like I'm with a woman.