Quotes About Perception

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view.

God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

So between you and me," I tell Justine on the phone that night, "we're either bitchy or stupid." "Oh God," she moans. "Everyone thinks I'm an idiot." "Thanks!

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

Now I'm a God, but tomorrow, when you have to stop me from playing with dead things again, you'll be right back to calling me an idiot, won't you?

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.

The moment you proclaim your Oneness with God, others will proclaim you partnership with Satan.

It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

The orthodox faith painted God as a revengeful being, and yet people talk about loving such a being.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.