Quotes about Perspective

Proverbs 14:10 that "each heart knows its own bitterness" (NIV), and I think he was on to something. No other human can climb down our throats like a spelunker and

Patience to wait does not come from suffering long for what we lack but from sitting long in what we have.

Actually, God's method of balancing our checkbooks isn't primarily about numbers. It's about attitude.

No other human can climb down our throats like a spelunker and hack through our trachea and try on our hearts and see how they feel. One mortal cannot fully comprehend how another operates from within.

We must cease to accept the visible as if it's the only possible solution and start believing what God says over what man sees.

The longer I live, the less I find God to be a hand shaker. Hand holder? Yes. Hand shaker? No.

Humility can be rather easily obtained by opening our eyes to reality—filling our minds and hearts with the greatness of God.

Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that. 2 Corinthians 5:16

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Still, from where we sit, even on this side of the Cross, where death gives way to life, sometimes what God has done for us can feel, instead, like something He has done to us.

That loving and being loved by Jesus matters more than all that the world can obtain or contain.

At times God is too close for us to see. We lose sight of how He's working until months or years later, when we're able to step back and gain a broader perspective. I frequently think about Moses pleading with God to show him His glory. God knew Moses couldn't handle what he was requesting, so He told him He'd hide him in the crevice of a rock and cover him with His hand while His glory passed by.