Quotes about Perspective

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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.