Quotes about Perspective

I'd forgotten how trees full of bird sounds made you sense the world differently: that life didn't just stop at eye level.

I'm always looking at the dialectic between the truth we believe exists outside ourselves and the truth we invent for ourselves.

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comic. Not to be confused with real life.

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.

Isn't it crazy? Rich people in the United States don't even know how to use money properly.

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.

There are Christians, and there are Christians.

Oh, and the camel. Was it a camel that could pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man? Or a coarse piece of yarn? The Hebrew words are the same, but which one did they mean? If it's a camel, the rich man might as well not even try. But if it's the yarn, he might well succeed with a lot of effort, you see?

Every kid has it tough. Being a little person in a big world with nobody taking you very seriously is tough.

No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

If the grown-up version of me could have one chance at walking backwards into this story, part of me wishes I could sit down on the back pew with that pissed-off kid in his overly tight church clothes and Darkhawk attitude, and tell him: You think you're giant but you are such a small speck in the screwed-up world. This is not about you.