Quotes About Perception

Someone to whom the tangible and the immediate are repugnant, to whom only the illusion is fully real.

Sharpening the writer's sense of reality. Feeding that great opportunistic maw, a novelist's mind.

Silk aveva qualcosa che la faceva sempre tornare all'infanzia e alla paura che ha il bimbo precoce di essere visto per quello che è; ma anche alla paura che ha il bimbo precoce di non essere sufficientemente guardato. Temeva di essere smascherata, moriva dalla voglia di essere al centro dell'attenzione: ecco il suo dilemma.

Suddenly she looked a little like General Noriega.

No solo eso; es que, además, la realidad puede permitirse el lujo de ser increíble, inexplicable, de situarse fuera de toda proporción.

For those who prefer a fairy tale to life, a moral: "Reality," concludes the embittered professor who for reasons unbeknown to himself became a female breast, "has style.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

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.

If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

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

Earth is crammed with heaven And every bush aflame with God But only those who see take off their shoes. —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20

Something inside me recoiled as I heard her repeat the clichéd comments from her visitors. Is Christianity supposed to make a sufferer feel even worse?

God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.

Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.

and said, almost without thinking, "Well, of course, Philip, God was already present in the prison. I just had to make him visible." I have often thought of that line from Joanna, which would make a fine mission statement for all of us seeking to know and follow God. God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.

somehow throughout history the church has managed to gain a reputation for its ungrace. As a little English girl prayed, "O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice.

The reason we fear to go out after dark is not that we may be set upon by bands of evangelicals and forced to read the New Testament, but that we may be set upon by gangs of feral young people who have been taught that nothing is superior to their own needs or feelings.

H. L. Mencken described a Puritan as a person with a haunting fear that someone, somewhere is happy; today, many people would apply the same caricature to evangelicals or fundamentalists.