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Quotes about Perspective

Not many people get argued into thinking differently, but experiences and stories move us, especially when we have the humility to listen and view the world from a different lens, from someone else's eyes.
— Shane Claiborne
If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision.
— Shane Claiborne
You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence.] But I guess that's why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.
— Shane Claiborne
Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta." I
— Shane Claiborne
My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately
— Shane Claiborne
to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.
— Shane Claiborne
Mother Teresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.
— Shane Claiborne
We always have to be careful that in exposing one truth we don't cover up another. Or
— Shane Claiborne
Mother Theresa always said, "Calcuttas are everywhere if only we have eyes to see. Find your Calcutta.
— Shane Claiborne
You might categorize your own fear as anxiety. But while the reality of fear is different for each of us, one thing remains constant: fear robs us of joy. When fear takes center stage, we find it impossible to live in the "what is" because of the "what might be.
— Sheila Walsh
We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.
— Oswald Chambers
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson