Quotes About Perception

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious.. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

Be it unto you, even as you believe. In God's economy, we believe first and then see.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. PROVERBS 23:7

If you accept what people call you, you will start to believe it. Find your identity in Christ, not in what others say.

We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give.

Our minds may be like some computers that can have a lifetime of wrong information stored in them.

It is so wonderful and comforting to know that when everyone else only sees our faults, God still sees our possibilities.

We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.

Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he.

One of the biggest causes of stress is focusing on the negative things that are happening around us.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes that we have.

Proverbs 23:7: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

The Log in My Eye You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. MATTHEW 7:5

Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. —HEBREWS 11:1 You can close your eyes and see a disaster or you can choose to see victory.

I looked at that woman and thought, This poor lady thinks she is hearing from God. "But how do you know she wasn't?" you may ask. I know because if God had wanted to correct me about my clothes, He would have done it through my husband, one of my children or one of the leaders in my ministry. He would have chosen someone I knew and whose opinion I respected, not someone I had never met or even heard of before. It

Religion is man's idea of God's expectations.

BENTNECK: Ach, nothing's free! Life's a peep show, not a look-see!

Your Mama's so stupid- Lassiter dematerialized and re-formed on the far side, spinning the rods- she thinks a California dime is something you dial a phone with. ~ Lassiter ' The Shadows' page 11

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Lo importante en nuestra sociedad no es lo que pasa, sino quién cuenta lo que pasa.

And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all is memory, this sentence that I just wrote is already a memory, this word is a memory that you, reader, just read.

Y me digo al mismo tiempo que somos pésimos jueces del momento presente, tal vez porque el presente no existe en realidad: todo es recuerdo, esta frase que acabo de escribir ya es recuerdo, es recuerdo esta palabra que usted, lector, acaba de leer.)

You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.