Quotes about Perspective
Love life more than the meaning of it?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
— Amy Carmichael
We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.
— Sonny Bono
Do you love this God who is everything, or do you just love everything He gives you?
— Francis Chan
we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
AS a matter of fact, God isn't asking you to be thankful. He's asking you to give thanks. There's a big difference. One response involves emotions, the other your choices, your decisions about a situation, your intent, your 'step of faith.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
This paralysis is my greatest mercy.7
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
— Joseph Addison
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow;
— Joseph Addison
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot