Quotes about Perspective
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
— Malcolm Muggeridge
whose eye Views all things at one view? He from Heaven's height
— John Milton
As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.
— John Milton
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
— John Newton
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.
— John Newton
We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.
— John Newton
Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.
— John Ortberg
When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.
— John Ortberg
Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.
— John Ortberg
People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. — Thomas Kelly
— John Ortberg
The problem with people, according to Jesus, is not that we are too happy for God's taste, but that we are not happy enough.
— John Ortberg
Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid sentiat ille quem interpretatur, exponere," Hieron. Apol. adv. Rufin.;—for when the mind is really affected with the discovery of truth itself, it will be guided and directed in the declaration of it unto others.
— John Owen