Quotes About Perception

“Are you saying this on your own,” Jesus asked, “or did others tell you about Me?”

Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, “Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him.”

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ëThe King of the Jews,í but only that He said, ëI am the King of the Jews.í”

But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”

These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!

So Peter followed him out, but he was unaware that what the angel was doing was real. He thought he was only seeing a vision.

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

At this stage of Paulís defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “Surely this man is a murderer. Although he was saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

The islanders were expecting him to swell up or suddenly drop dead. But after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

The leaders replied, “We have not received any letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the brothers from there reported or even mentioned anything bad about you.

ëGo to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

For this peopleís heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.í

For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?

Do not allow what you consider good, then, to be spoken of as evil.

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

through glory and dishonor, slander and praise; viewed as imposters, yet genuine;

I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you by my letters.

For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then receive me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.

For you gladly tolerate fools, since you are so wise.