Quotes about Perspective

Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it.

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along," one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.

Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God's goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.

One reason God allows times of difficulty and suffering to come into our lives is so that we will not take Him for granted but will remember in a deeper way His faithfulness to us and our dependence on Him.

Worry is an old man with a bent head, carrying a load of feathers he thinks is lead.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Money takes our minds off God.

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.