Quotes about View

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

It was much simpler for him to judge Miss Bart by her habitual conduct than by the rare deviations from it which had thrown her so disturbingly in his way; and every act of hers which made the recurrence of such deviations more unlikely confirmed the sense of relief with which he returned to the conventional view of her.

A man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left for college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.

You can't break through Hollywood formulaic points of view. I've tried, and I think I was more successful than anybody at doing it.

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

What may appear as audacity God views as authenticity.

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

When anyone provokes you, remember that it is actually your own opinion provoking you. It is not the person who insults or attacks you who torments your mind, but the view you take of these things. Do not be fooled by how things first appear. With time and greater perspective, you can regain inner peace.