Quotes About Perception

He aprendido a ver la realidad espiritual por encima de la realidad física de este mundo. Tenemos tendencia a pensar que la vida debería ser justa, puesto que Dios es justo. No obstante, Dios no es la vida.

Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. What keeps us from realizing that abundant life?

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

Y el mundo que nos observa, juzga a Dios por aquellos que llevan su nombre. En gran medida, la desilusión con Dios brota de la desilusión con los demás cristianos.

La presencia visible de Dios no mejoró en nada su fe ni la hizo duradera.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist. My own rules seem necessary; other people's rules seem excessively strict.

do worry about the recent tendency for the labels "evangelical Christian" and "religious right" to become interchangeable. Increasingly Christians are perceived as rigid moralists who want to control others' lives.

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

I don't think your God has ever advised you otherwise. You hear only what you want. He only ever commands your preferences.

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.

Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as her front door, for the rest of his life. If she chooses a wastrel she will be avoided by all her neighbors as a poor woman; catch a duke and she will be Your Grace, and everyone will be her friend. She can be pious, she can be learned,she cane be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be that poor Mrs. Fool until the day he dies.

The common people only see weakness where there is greatness of spirit.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

Perhaps there is a God like firelight, but all we can see is the shadows that we cast ourselves when we walk in front of the fire. Then we see great leaping shadows and think that this is God, but really it is only our own image.

Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.

I can't think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.

The truth is the last thing that matters.

how it is that men, even thoughtful men, can sound as if they never consider anything but always simply know.

For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.