Quotes about Perspective
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
— Ann Voskamp
People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.
— Francis Chan
Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
— Joel Osteen
Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.
— Joel Osteen
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
— Karl Barth
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
— Max Lucado
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.
— Denzel Washington
They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
— John of the Cross
The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.
— Moby
Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.
— Oswald Chambers