Quotes about Perspective

Learning critical thinking is important not only for speaking to people outside the church but also for educating people on the inside

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.

And if there is no objective or universal truth, then any claim to have objective truth will be treated as nothing but an attempt by one interpretive community to impose its own limited, subjective perspective on everyone else. An act of oppression. A power grab.

A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.

Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of religiously neutral knowledge, where biblical truth has nothing important to say.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.