Quotes about Perspective

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.

My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

Or do you move into conflict with a God-centered perspective?

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. When

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Each of us is tempted to make relationships the end rather than the means

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.

If I go out and do a set, there's a good chance that I'll watch another comedian. I'll think - not necessarily their words, but oftentimes the message that's behind the words - the sort of belief that their unspokenly advocating, well, sometimes that's offensive.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

I pretty much knew that I was going to come in fourth, but then I said, 'I'm fourth at the Olympic Games. What are you talking about? Why is that disappointing?'

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.