Quotes about Perspective

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Having an attitude of thankfulness in all of life's circumstances will help you react as old Matthew Henry did when he was mugged. He wrote in his diary, "Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed." I wonder if I could be that thankful!

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday's luxuries are today's necessities.

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

The Bible will always be the center of controversy.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us.

The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.

First — How did I become a Socialist? By reading.