Quotes about Perspective

first transform what you think.

many men have come to view the church as a task to be done rather than a community to be in.

We are happy to have God in our vicinity even though he is not in our midst. We like to have God in general, but we think we don't need God in specific.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Fear dismembers and disfigures our perspective of God, making Him seem a powerless pawn controlled by our circumstances. But when we re-member the Lord and re-count His works, we begin to re-form our vision of His greatness in our hearts.

Often, the difference between what is and what could be is not measured by the length of the track, but rather by the resistance between our ears.

Any thought that does not inspire hope is rooted in a lie.

many Christians live with limited, powerless, finite thinking. How is this even possible? How do people who claim to have the Creator of the universe living inside them, the mind of Christ thinking through them, and the Spirit of God influencing the world around them even have the nerve to think small?

The truth is, you do not always have power over what happens to you, but you do have complete control over what happens in you.

Earthly seating creates reactionary prayers. If we sit there long enough, we will wind up with a big devil and a little God.

On the emotional and mental levels, laughter not only diffuses negative thoughts and emotions, it also produces positive emotions like hope and elation and allows us to create new, more optimistic perspectives on our circumstances.