Quotes about Perspective

Our biggest problem is our small view of God.

Each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

One of two things happens over time. Either your theology will conform to your reality, and your expectations will get smaller and smaller until you can hardly believe God for anything. Or your reality will conform to your theology, and your expectations will get bigger and bigger until you can believe God for absolutely everything!

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness—you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week ... If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep—you are richer than 75 percent of this world ... So count your blessings and remind everyone else how blessed we all are!

Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life.

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.

Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Colossians 3:2

Giving preachers advice on how to prepare sermons is a little like telling them what "their drink" should be at Starbucks.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.