Quotes about Perspective

I took my Canadian perspective over to Ireland and dug around, and I found a very interesting story and brought it back.

Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Don't sit on your patio in the high noon of your tranquility and make light of the huts that people build in the midnight of their desperation.

If there is a disease in the preaching that I hear most often, it's not that what the minister says is wrong. It's that it is just too small.

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.