Quotes about Perspective
If the physicists seem to achieve their ends more successfully than the theologians, that is simply a reflection of how much easier science is than theology.
— John Polkinghorne
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
— John Updike
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
— John Wesley
I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.
— John Wooden
Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.
— John Wooden
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
— John Wooden
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
— Ellen White
The very act of looking for evil in others develops evil in those who look. By dwelling upon the faults of others, we are changed into the same image.
— Ellen White
That your mind is clouded is no evidence that Christ is not your precious Saviour.
— Ellen White
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
— Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
— Ellen Glasgow
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
— Ellen Glasgow