Quotes about Perspective

It's easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it's easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say—- thou knowest not so well as I.

You were not contented while you had her, and to weep for her now is childish.

To have a thankful heart for deliverance is a greater blessing than the deliverance itself.

The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider

all. First, it concerns rich men. You would not think that it would be necessary to tell rich men to be content, whom God has blessed with great possessions, but, instead, persuade them to be humble and thankful. But

A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).

We should look upon sin in two looking-glasses—the glass of Christ's blood, and the glass of death.

We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.