Quotes About Perception

Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going to lose it. And it's the same thing with you [Lorraine], it's God-given.

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

Why can't we see everyone and everything as God, as a part of the Divine? It is because we don't see ourselves this way.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

God is a twelve year old boy with Asperger's.

...we'll first address our inaccurate view of God and, consequently of ourselves.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

One of the ways we can bear the image of God well is to see things in others they don't see themselves and call that out of them.

This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

The Qur'an says speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as "dead," or die in the way of Allah as "dead," "they are alive, but you perceive not."

All gods are better than their reputation.

Art is the god you have not seen.

There was a photo of me with weird sunglasses on and a green sweatshirt, some striped thing, with tights and cowboy boots...I just saw that photo and thought, 'God, I look crazy.'