Quotes About Perception

The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.

“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Yet your people say, ëThe way of the Lord is not just.í But it is their way that is not just.

Only I, Daniel, saw the vision; the men with me did not see it, but a great terror fell upon them, and they ran and hid themselves.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

You have wearied the LORD with your words; yet you ask, “How have we wearied Him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the LORD, and in them He delights,” or, “Where is the God of justice?”

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?