Quotes About Perception

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

Faith sees the unseen things and makes them real.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things that we do not see.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.