Quotes about Perspective
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute?
— Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Let us improve our opportunities, then, before the evil days come.
— Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
None is so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin.
— Henry David Thoreau
This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. . . . When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.
— Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
— Henry David Thoreau
This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one center.
— Henry David Thoreau
What a different aspect will courage put upon the face of things!
— Henry David Thoreau
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most fear is fear of the unknown. We do not know what lies ahead of us, so we become apprehensive. Our imaginations can magnify problems until they seem insurmountable. We need a sound mind to see things in proper perspective. That is why God gave us His Holy Spirit, to enable us to see things as God sees them.
— Henry Blackaby
If you want to determine whether God loves you, don't look at your current situation; look to the cross.
— Henry Blackaby
while theology should inform a Christian's relationship with God, it should never take its place.
— Henry Blackaby