Quotes about Perspective

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

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.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.

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.

Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.

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.

No sin is worse than the sin of self-pity, because it obliterates God and puts self-interest upon the throne.

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. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.