Quotes about Perspective
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I got up every day thinking the sun was out there shining, and it could just as well shine on me as any other human person.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Think of all the duties that were perfectly obvious to Paul or Matthew in that old Arabian desert that are pure nonsense to us now. All that foot washing, for example. Was it really for God's glory or just to keep the sand out of the house?
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
With these startling honesties glinting up at us from history's broken mirror, it strikes me that this is worth shouting from the rooftops: We could be wrong this time, again. The enemy may not be exactly what we think. It may be a force that resides in many quarters, including inside our skin, in our very words, the questions we frame, the things we love most, the things we can't live without. Our greatest dread may be our salvation.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.
— Barbara Kingsolver
if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There are Christians, and there are Christians.
— Barbara Kingsolver