Quotes About Perception

But I did not believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told to me. You have far exceeded the report I heard.

Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he never prophesies good for me, but only bad?”

Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

Were He to pass by me, I would not see Him; were He to move, I would not recognize Him.

Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?

I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this; my ears have heard and understood.

If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Yet you say: ëWhat does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.í