Quotes about Perspective

God had used a blind man to show him what he couldn't see. That made John smile through his tears.

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

I remember having crushes and longings, but there were all these missed opportunities or things that seemed like such a big deal, but you really don't understand what the other person is going through.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

He uses the difficult seasons in our relationships to allow us to see what we typically live for besides him.

Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.