Quotes about Perspective

The first is: if you can, read more than one history of an event or period that interests you. The second is: read a history not only to learn what really happened at a particular time and place in the past, but also to learn the way men act in all times and places, especially now.

Good controversy should not be a quarrel about assumptions

RULE 10, and it can be expressed thus: WHEN YOU DISAGREE, DO SO REASONABLY, AND NOT DISPUTATIOUSLY OR CONTENTIOUSLY.

Let the characters into your mind and heart; suspend your disbelief, if such it is, about the events. Do not disapprove of something a character does before you understand why he does it—if then. Try as hard as you can to live in his world, not in yours; there, the things he does may be quite understandable. And do not judge the world as a whole until you are sure that you have "lived" in it to the extent of your ability.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.

Our malady is not low self-esteem, nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.

What we believe about God is crucial because it affects what we believe about everything else.

I can whine —or— I can worship!

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.