Quotes about Perspective
far too much Christian evangelism and apologetics is based on the assumption that almost everyone is open, interested and needy—when most people most of the time are quite simply not.
— Os Guinness
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
— Oscar Wilde
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
— Oscar Wilde
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
— Oscar Wilde
A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
— Oswald Chambers
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
— Oswald Chambers
I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.
— Oswald Chambers
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
— Oswald Chambers
It takes God a long time to get us to stop thinking that unless everyone sees things exactly as we do, they must be wrong.
— Oswald Chambers