Quotes about Perspective

It is a fundamental denial of your humanity to narrow the size of your life to the size of your own existence,

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

Truth that is not spoken in love ceases to be truth because it is twisted by other human agendas. Love that is not guided by truth ceases to be love because it is divorced from God's agenda. Once

You'll never celebrate grace as much as you should when you think you're more righteous than you actually are.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

When you don't understand what's going on, run to God's goodness rather than questioning whether it exists.

I want to get you to think about and finally find comfort in the fact that our experience of suffering is never just physical. The pain that stops us in our tracks, that makes us want to pull the covers over our head and not face the day, and at moments makes us wish that we could die, is never just physical.

In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.

3. We replace vertical awe with horizontal addiction.

because we are self-focused, we tend to be scorekeepers, constantly comparing our piles of stuff to the piles of others. It's a life of discontentment and envy. Envy is always selfish.

It was humbling to admit that I wasn't living the simple life because I was spiritually committed to it. I was living the simple life because I was poor.