Quotes about Perspective

Our purpose (in relationship) is to get what we want but God's purpose is to give us what we really need. We think things are going well only if we are getting along with others. But God says that it is also when we are not getting along with others that he is accomplishing his purpose. God has designed our relationship to function as both a diagnosis and a cure.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Only when awe of God rules your heart will you be able to keep the pleasures of the material world in their proper place.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.

We all tend to look for life horizontally when the reality is that we will only ever find life vertically.

Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.

You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.

If I am going to see myself clearly, I need you to hold the mirror of God's Word in front of me.

Whatever sits on the other side of your "if-only" is where you are looking for life, peace, joy, hope, and lasting contentment of heart.

No one is more influential in your life than you are because no one talks to you more than you do. It's a fact that you and I are in an endless conversation with ourselves.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.