Quotes about Perspective

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The perspective of Thomas' confession - 'My Lord and God' - must prevail through all our thinking and all our reinterpretations ... All reinterpretation should be tested by whether it can participate in this confession.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

When God does not supply our motivation, we tend to major in the minors and minor in the majors.

This season in your life can be so productive spiritually if you use it to allow God to break you, shape you, and remake you," she told him. "We're always looking at what our spouses have done wrong, but God wants to deal with our own hearts first.

When truth is rejected, spend your time on those who will receive it instead of begging closed-hearted people to reconsider.

What if I ran all my actions through this grid: "If my son-in-law treated my daughter the way I'm treating my wife, how would I feel?" Men, that's the way what you're doing looks like to God. Women, just switch the genders. Imagine hearing your (perhaps future) daughter-in-law talking to her friends about your son with the same tone and words you use to describe your husband: How does that feel?

Prayer is how we make sense of our lives in the light of eternity.

If we live without an eternal perspective, earthly trials become larger than life. Without the hope of heaven or the sense of the importance of a growing character and refinement, there is nothing to prepare for, nothing to look forward to; it is like practicing and practicing but never getting to actually play a game. Life gets boring, tedious, and tiresome.

Infatuation fills your eyes with what you're getting, but let the Bible fill your mind with what you're committing to give.

Here's what I've come to terms with in regard to mission: My first goal in life isn't to defend me. What someone thinks about me won't impact their future spiritual destiny.

Hendricks turned to his wife and said, "A great man. How many great men do you know?" "One fewer than you think," she answered.