Quotes About Perception

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.

God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

The Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything.

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

Oh my God, I'm not anorexic. I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it.

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

People have always wondered what my opinion on Stevie Wonder is. I say if he's so great how come he can't see? I mean, God doesn't make mistakes, just look at me for example.

Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

How things stand, is God. God is, how things stand.