Quotes about Perspective

I grew up in a family of storytellers, but Google has destroyed us because you can fact-check everything. We'd always like the stories to be a little better than they were.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

Whenever you believe that the evil outside you is greater than the evil inside you, a heartfelt pursuit of Christ will be replaced by a zealous fighting of the "evil" around you.

All of us respond to life based upon who we think we are and what we think we have.

We don't just struggle with want; we struggle with blessing as well.

Who you tell yourself you are has a very powerful impact on the way you deal with the big and small issues of daily life. In the same way, where you find your identity will have everything to do with how you respond to the hard work of relationships with others. Either I get my identity vertically, out of my sense of who God is and worship who he has made me in Christ, or I will seek to get my identity horizontally, out of my circumstances, relationships, and successes.

Look at your relationship to money. What does it tell you about your relationship to God?

the anger we reveal in the middle of trial says more about us than it does about the trial.

We tend to believe that the sin that surrounds us is more dangerous than the sin that resides inside us.

More than that, we invite you to look at your words through the lens of Scripture.

We are to be in the world, though not of it. Often Christians have evaded the challenge of this call by defining their role as salt in negative terms. They have simply denounced bad things in the culture and been against things rather than for them.

When we live out of a sense of who we are in Christ, we live our lives based on all we have been given by Christ. This keeps us from seeking to get those things from the people and situations around us.